Quotes About Unity

points to the church at Antioch as a kind of ideal local church, in part because every social group is represented. That church was the only place Herod's brother (an aristocrat) and a slave (considered very low) could have been drawn together. Antioch was also a strategic church because its members were all "tellers

At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Once you break into the godlike unity of the appreciator you find a microcosm of which the theatre is the macrocosm; the mind is complex and ill-connected like an audience, and it is as surprising in the one case as the other that a sort of unity can be produced by a play.

Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

Then all meaning was in the group . . . today . . . all is in the individual.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

That a society of free men, co-operating under contract, is by far the strongest society which has ever yet existed; that

Ecclesia est Christus explicatus—the church is nothing but Christ displayed.

To say we love one, and not pray for him, is a solecism.

There is nothing, next Christ and heaven, that the devil grudged believers more than their peace and mutual love.

Family is, after all—however irritating—family.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

I trust the people.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Is it possible to view life through such a non-dualistic consciousness, while continuing life as we live it today? Unity and A Course in Miracles both assure us that it is possible, and try to teach us this Truth, and to bring this Truth into our daily lives by retraining our minds.

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.