Quotes About Unity

But there are, I was learning, different landscapes in the country of love.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

to create "a world that works for everyone, with no one and nothing left out.

Collaboration leads us to and grounds us in sufficiency.

What are you doing here " "Hiding with you

If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us.

great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in each other. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. A

Isn't it funny that when we get married it's called "tying the knot"? For us, this wasn't just an act at the altar.2 It's something we have to do over and over again.

8Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. 9Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

Her gifts are not a threat to yours, in fact, because we are all on the same team, her gifts and joys are a win for you.

Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness" (James 3:18).

Our life could have been very self-focused. Our marriage. Our home. Our kids. Our plans. Our life. But God wanted so much more from us. He didn't bring us together simply to build a life that would make us happy. He brought us together to be partners in the purpose He assigned. Our own strength would not have prepared us for kingdom assignments.

Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand.

When I don't have peace physically, I don't have peace spiritually. I can't separate the two. Nor should I.

Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you, O LORD my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever" (Psalm 86:11 – 12).

The need to belong goes beyond the need for superficial social ties . . . it is a need for meaningful, profound bonding.

Together is a great way to press through something you're afraid could make you feel a bit undone.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15:9 – 12)

When Jesus says, "Follow me," it's not an invitation to drag our divided heart alongside us as we attempt to follow hard after God.

Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. A decision.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war.

Never in the known history of man has a people or nation stockpiled weapons and in the end not used them. But if we use the weapons we have stockpiled it will be the end of nations and peoples if not the end of the whole race. Never has the human family so urgently needed a transformation of consciousness. Those who devote themselves to contemplative meditation are performing a most basic and loving service. It is a very real response to the call to love and to act.

Monks realize well that when the consciousness of one person is raised, the whole of humanity is raised; when the quality of life of one improves, all improve. Or, to put it in another, more biblical, way, the increased health and vitality of any one cell vitalizes the whole Body of Christ. 38