Quotes about Agreement

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.

At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.

And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel: