Quotes about Agreement

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going or it will become a snare in your midst.

The Fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

There are also many descriptions in the poets and orators, which owe their sublimity to a richness and profusion of images, in which the mind is so dazzled as to make it impossible to attend to that exact coherence and agreement of the allusions, which we should require on every other occasion.

You know what charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.

See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.

God expects unity, not uniformity, and we can walk arm-in-arm without seeing eye-to-eye on every issue.