Quotes About Unity

What's worse than a Protestant? A Unitarian! It was no church and no faith at all.

Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?

On doit tous être pareils. Nous ne naissons pas libres et égaux, comme le proclame la Constitution, on nous rend égaux.

Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

So there they go, Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim

Você precisa entender que nossa civilização é tão vasta que não podemos permitir que nossas minorias sejam transtornadas e agitadas.

He realized that all men were like this; that each person was to himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid. Like here, standing. If he should scream, if he should holler for help, would it matter?

Non è che ognuno nasca libero e uguale, come dice la Costituzione, ma ognuno vien fatto uguale. Ogni essere umano è a immagine e somiglianza di ogni altro; dopo di che tutti son felici, perché non ci sono montagne che ci scoraggino con la loro altezza da superare, non montagne sullo sfondo delle quali si debba misurare la nostra statura! Ecco perché un libro è un fucile carico, nella casa del tuo vicino.

Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

Christmas is the end of thinking you are better than someone else." That might make a good banner to hang over the front door of every church. At least it would serve up a dollop of humility every time we passed under the banner. Those of us who believe in Jesus aren't any better than anyone else. Sometimes we seem like we're worse than a lot of people, but that's not the point.

A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half.

That is a greeting which says that the god that is in you recognizes the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine presence in all things.

The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy.

So what you have here on the dollar bill is the eagle representing this wonderful image of the way in which the transcendent manifests itself in the world. That's what the United States is founded on. If you're going to govern properly, you've got to govern from the apex of the triangle, in the sense of the world eye at the top.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

Now brotherhood in most of the myths I know of is confined to a bounded community. In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward.

counterpart, in

The only myth that is going to be worth thinking about in the immediate future is one that is talking about the planet, not the city, not these people, but the planet, and everybody on it.

Chief Seattle: "The Earth does not belong to Man; Man belongs to the Earth."6

Tehát amikor Jézus azt mondja, hogy szeresd felebarátodat, mint tenmagadat, akkor valójában nem kevesebbet állít, minthogy szeresd felebarátodat, mert Å' te magad vagy.

Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions.

the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint...

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother.