Quotes About Unity

I like the music we make together whether there's music or not.

Tell me something from your childhood on the reservation. Something I couldn't guess—like the happiest day of your life.

Jack, there are only two of us here. One of us is going to push him out, one of us is going to catch him. Which job do you want?

I'm not alone, Shelby," she said patiently. I'm on my own – there's a difference...

In picking up a rock I could no longer simply say, 'This is a rock,' I could now say, 'This is part of a net,' or closer, 'This, which everything acts upon, acts.' When this way of thinking became ordinary for me, I too became lost in the net and the boundaries of myself stretched out for ever.

We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met.

He went on, talking about how opposites could actually be the same thing, and how they occurred together in nature, not actually opposites at all, but simply destined to take part in different reactions.

Do you know who else welcomes everyone to their table?" I asked. "Anyone desperate for friends." He snorted. "Who are you calling desperate?" Nick interrupted, coming over with his tray. "Anyone who would date you," I smiled sweetly. "Whatever, I'm awesome," Nick bused his tray.

we're two sides of the same tragic coin, its like we were tied together before we even met

Sadie smiled at me, and it felt like she was holding the universe together.

if there's one message that comes up again and again, it's 'Love conquers Fear.

And thus the name Katholik? Ekklesia begins to be used, as it is here, to mean "the original Church known everywhere". And that original Church, Theophorus insists, is always recognizable as the one that "clings inseparably" to a bishop appointed by the Apostles.52

Irenaeus, writing even earlier, puts it more beautifully still: "By the wood of the Cross the work of the Word of God was made manifest to all: his hands are stretched out to gather all men together. Two hands out-stretched, for there are two peoples scattered over the whole earth. One sole head in the midst, for there is but one God over all, among all, and in all." This is

Though Donald Trump won the presidency in part with the strong support of Catholics and Evangelicals, the idea that someone as robustly vulgar, fiercely combative, and morally compromised as Trump will be an avatar for the restoration of Christian morality and social unity is beyond delusional. He is not a solution to the problem of America's cultural decline, but a symptom of it. The

Because we are finite creatures who live in time, we cannot see things clearly. Be careful in judging others because the truth of their character and their situation may be hidden from your eyes. Only God knows the whole truth and only God knows the future. Don't expect all the answers now, but be patient and trusting and seek to grow in love. Each act of love is one more step in the long journey to our true and only home, unity with God in eternity.

The longer we remain isolated in a period of liberty, the harder it will be to find one another in a time of persecution.

It's no accident that every dictatorship always tries to break down the family, because it's in the family that you get the strength to be able to fight,

In a time when people have forgotten how to be neighbors, simply sharing a meal or a movie together is a political act.

a church that is a church only on Sunday and at other formal gatherings of the congregation is not only failing to be the church Christ calls us all to be; it is also not going to be a church with the strength and the focus to endure the trials ahead.

Because we knew Mordor was real. We felt that their story"—that of the hobbits and others resisting the evil Sauron—"was our story too. Tolkien's dragons are more realistic than a lot of things we have in this world.

golden age of community

Father John told the mourning priest, "Join your grief with the grief of others, and then you will find it easier to carry.

God has distributed his graces in such a way that we really need each other," said the priest. "Certainly there's the old man within me that craves individualism, but the more I live in community, the more I see that you can't have it and be faithful, or fully human.

For Marxists, social justice meant an equal distribution of society's material goods. By contrast, Christian social justice sought to create conditions of unity that enabled all people—rich and poor alike—to live in solidarity and mutual charity as pilgrims on the road to unity with Christ.