Quotes About Resolution

ëSurely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.í

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.

It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.

Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.

You have heard that it was said, ëEye for eye and tooth for tooth.í

But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ëevery matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.í

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ëGive me justice against my adversary.í

They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave the city.

But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”

So if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open and proconsuls are available. Let them bring charges against one another there.

But if you are seeking anything beyond this, it must be settled in a legal assembly.

After he had said this, he dismissed the assembly.

Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!