Jim Wallis Quotes

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

All who wish peace ought to unite in the means which may facilitate its attainment.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Accommodation is a willingness to maintain constructive relationship with others with whom one is in serious and even intractable disagreement. Social cooperation would come under impossible pressure if it always depended on strict agreement.

compromise is the work of mature people.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Why can't we all just get along?

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

Can we all get along?

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.