Quotes About Unity

Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident...

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

I intend to do the same with him that I'd do for you or any other man in this brigade.

When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another.

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

I think this galaxy would be a whole lot nicer and more pleasant place to live if we all just stop killing one another. Who's with me on this?" A few chuckles and a couple of faux cheers were the response. "You're a visionary," I-Five told him. "Float it past Palpatine, see what he thinks," Uli suggested.

Sharing meals together forced us to figure out how to be the body of Christ reconciled across racial, ethnic, and class lines.

This economic arrangement worked only because their lives were so oriented toward the group that they didn't even consider their possessions their own but "had everything in common" (Acts 4: 32 ESV). While this probably didn't mean a one-time divestment of every single piece of individual property into a common fund, it absolutely meant people sold land and houses to share with the group.

if you want to create the kingdom potluck at the margins, you must relentlessly pursue the sort of community that makes it possible for the marginalized to "bring a plate.

You may not be able to imagine what it means to see upper-middle-class Indians wearing traditional African shirts and black Kenyans wearing Indian saris as they circled up to share the Lord's Supper together. And I'm confident you cannot imagine the food.

People, not places, make a life whole.

Men always imagine that women are bonded by ideas of sisterhood and solidarity, but we pick our fights and our friends.

In the kitchen, the egg is ultimately neither ingredient nor finished dish but rather a singularity with a thousand ends.

Anything anyone can point to in nature is composed of small patterns and is a part of larger ones.

Everything seeks unity. The goal of many religions and mythic ordeals is to return to a lost state of Divine Oneness. But we have no need to return to a state of oneness because unity is axiomatic and we already are integrated in it. Barely recognizing our situation, here and now we live in a whole and beautifully harmonious wonder world. Only a self-imposed illusion of separateness keeps us from recognizing our own center of awareness and identity with the One.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. —Zeno of Elea (490–430 B.C., Greek philosopher)

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife. —Heraclitus (c. 540–c. 480 B.C., Greek philosopher)

Only a more Savage Nation can survive.

The two that are one, the one that is all!

I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.