Quotes about Quarrel
It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.
- Proverbs 20:3
Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
- Proverbs 26:17
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
- Proverbs 26:21
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Isaiah 45:9
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
- Tertullian
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends.
- JC Ryle
Reading the prophets, says Yancey, is like hearing a lovers' quarrel through the apartment wall.
- John Eldredge
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde
And he will bring justice to the nations. He will not quarrel, nor scream at people. You will not be able to hear his voice above the chatter of the street. In bringing discernment of what is good and right to the point where it actually governs human existence, he will not use even the violence it takes to finish breaking a stick that is already cracked or smother a smoking wick. (Matt. 12:18—21, quoted from Isa. 42:1—4)
- Dallas Willard
A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost