Quotes About Dispute

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

creating big, bold letters; he draws visible pleasure from the flourishes with which he embellishes especially the letters J and S. They want a big public Disputation,

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable. William Penn

particularly acrimonious, so

Anyone who is known as the Mysterious Marquis ought to have far more interesting reasons for his behavior than a stupid dispute with Sir Hilary.

You will not deny me what is mine!" "I'll deny like a politician under oath," said Murphy.

a story about two friends who stop being friends because of a dispute in which both of their arguments are wrong

pettifogging

P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.

Walter Brueggemann calls these parts of the Bible Israel's "countertestimony" . . . This spot-on term to name the dark side of the Bible, and which calls into question Israel's main storyline, comes from Walter Brueggemann's Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy.

war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest.

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelechís servants had seized,

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaacís herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.

“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”

In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, ëThis is mine,í both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay back double to his neighbor.

an oath before the LORD shall be made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has taken his neighborís property. The owner must accept the oath and require no restitution.

And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?

both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthahís messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”