Quotes About Unity

God said that when a man and a woman are married, the two will become one flesh, but He never said it would be easy. Good relationships require a lot of hard work, education, and willingness to meet each other's needs.

For the Gentiles

And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ's] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always]. COLOSSIANS 3:15

Tú y yo de la mano como dos buenos amigos; como dos buenos compañeros, unidos para caminar sobre el ancho mundo. Y que no bajen las nubes, que nunca bajen sobre nosotros. Tú, aire de las colinas, las espantarás con esa virtud de que estás llena

Estuve leyendo hace rato a un tipo que se llama Walt Whitman y encontré una cosa que dice: El que camina un minuto sin amor, camina amortajado hacia su propio funeral. Y esto me hizo recordar que yo siempre anduve paseando mi amor por todas partes, hasta que te encontré a ti y te lo di enteramente.

You have a solid team behind you. So reach out. He smiled. Just don't reach out and push me into a freezing river next time.

Destruction is thus always restoration—that is, the destruction of a set of categories that introduce artificial divisions into an otherwise unified ontology.

that struggling individual on the brink of collective identity

Where is your home? she asked after a long, comfortable silence. Wherever you are.

Sweeping her up into her arms, Jenny hugged her tightly. "Everybody

As long as she loves me and I love her, what difference does religion make?

Oh who owns the school? Oh who owns the school? Oh who owns the school? the people saaaayyyy. . . . Oh we own the school Oh we own the school 'Cause we are sixth graaaaders today!

Roses are red Violets are blue I am your brother And you are mine, too.

Through all kinds of weather What if the sky should fall Just as long as we're together It doesn't matter at all

What kind of family were they? she wondered. What kind of family isn't able to comfort one another?

where they'd both

When we sing, we can do anything—change the world, bring peace, be our best selves at last. When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.

I think of the great songs that have carried me along, songs I have sung with you, and for you, all over the world—songs that have carried all of us in rough seas as well as tranquil times, songs that have healed our hearts and kept us going. After all these years, I still believe that music can change the world, and as long as there is music, the dreams will never die.

Turn your face to me Turn your gaze and see All the pain surrounding you Every song you hear With a heart sincere Brings a chance for you to do Something more Than Be Alone Something more Than Be Unknown Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope

Alexander and Caesar have had this in common: to be loved and wept by the conquered, and to perish by the hands of their own countrymen. Such men have no country; they belong to the world.

Philosophical attention is focused on a more complex matter: the possession of wisdom (sophia – the wisdom loved by the philosophos). It is assumed, taken to be a matter beyond argument, that wisdom is not just knowing individual facts, but being able to relate them to one another in a unified and structured way, one that involves understanding of a field or area of knowledge.

unified understanding is not a theoretical grasp cut off from practice, but may itself involve a practical ability to apply the understanding in question.)

dominance of what we can call the expertise model for knowledge. What is taken to matter for knowledge is whether you can, as an expert can, grasp the relevant items in a way that relates them to one another and to the field as a whole, and can give a reasoned account of this, one which explains the particular judgements you make and relates them to your unified grasp of the whole.

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)