Quotes About Unity

Yes: in the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone .

The State is of the religion of all its citizens without the fanaticism of any of them.

Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them,??persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection

There is s no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities. We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house. Theodore Roosevelt

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me. — Meister Eckhart

Our Father. Intimating, that we must pray, not only alone and for ourselves, but with and for others; for we are members one of another, and are called into fellowship with each other.

Holy love knits the hearts of Christians one to another; and faith and love both contribute to our comfort.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected , and near his heart to be beloved.

Those that are enemies to God's church are enemies to themselves, and, sooner or later, they will be made to see it.

Christ must be sought, and will be found, in the congregations of his people and in the administration of his ordinances;

Christ has a table in his kingdom, at which all his saints shall for every eat and drink with him, Luke 22:30.

If you get the man right (or the woman, of course), you get the world right.

Acceptance is the key to the third level of intimacy. If two people can develop the acceptance necessary to respect each other's opinions, enjoy each other's company despite differences of opinion, and remain dedicated to a common search for truth, then something wonderful happens: the gates of intimacy swing wide open.

We begin by turning to God in prayer. "Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name" (Psalm 86:11). Lord, inspire me to live an undivided life. Cast everything out of my life that creates an obstacle to the unified life you created me to live, and give me the courage to make decisions that defend and celebrate unity of life. Amen.

When holiness emerges in any place and time, all men and women of good will are inspired.

In any successful business, everybody has to be part of the sales force.

In helping them live their dreams, we come personally invested in them - one of the fundamentals of teamwork.

What keeps people together in dynamic relationships? A common purpose. Why do people break up? Because they have no sense of common purpose; or they lose sight of their common purpose; or their common purpose becomes unimportant to them. So in order to create extraordinary relationships we have to develop a common understanding of a shared purpose. But before we can understand the purpose of our relationships, we must first understand our purpose as individuals.

We need friends who help to make us whole, not friends who add to our dividedness.

But in truth, these masses had more than cotton profits in their souls. Especially in light of the failure of the European revolutions of 1848, many Americans understood the global stakes involved should their republican Union fail.

Everywhere he had traveled he found that Americans "have their sectional loves and hatreds, but before the dear name of Washington they are all absorbed and forgotten