Quotes about Dispute
If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!
- 1 Corinthians 6:1
So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?
- 1 Corinthians 6:4
Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
- 1 Corinthians 6:6
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
- 1 Corinthians 6:7
If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
- 1 Corinthians 11:16
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
- Galatians 5:12
But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
- Jude 1:9
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
- Cicero
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
- Tertullian
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
- Joseph Heller
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
- Elbert Hubbard