Quotes About Unity

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Pooling people in race silos is akin to zoologists grouping raccoons, tigers, and okapis on the basis that they are all stripey." 8

As we live together in Scripture as "Our One True Story of God for the Whole World," we come to know its authority in and through Jesus Christ.22 Anything less reduces Scripture to a collection of facts or feelings.

Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

Dear Reader, let me tell you this: Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.

Jews were the standard-bearers of the Austrian idea of unity.' A poignant though probably apocryphal tale is of a group of Austro-Hungarian Army officers casting earth into the grave of a fellow soldier: each does it in the name of his own nationality – Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish. Only the Jewish officer speaks for Austria.

Organizing a marriage is like forming a government after a war.

Each breath of air a world

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

Hinduism is not about joining a church but about developing respect for all beings, not only humans but plants and animals as well. It is not about a particular holy book but about understanding our own minds and hearts. It is not about a savior but about discovering the Divine presence within us.

Whatever color a person's skin, whatever language he speaks, God loves him.

am equally at home in an Anglican or Baptist church

The deepest ache of the soul is the spiritual longing for connection and belonging. No one was created for isolation. "Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself," says John O'Donohue. "No thing is ultimately at one with itself."2

Heart of oak are our ships,Heart of oak are our men:We always are ready;Steady, boys, steady;We'll fight, and we'll conquer again and again.

When we fail to see that our culture, even our Christian expression of our culture, is not the same thing as the gospel, we may identify those who practice their Christian faith differently than we do as aliens and enemies.

Star Trek was about social justice from day one -- the stories were about the human pursuit for a better world, a better way of being, the next step up the ladder of sentience. The stories weren't about who we were going to fight, but who we were going to make friends with. It wasn't about defining an enemy -- it was about creating a new partnership. That's why when Next Gen came along, we had a Klingon on the bridge.

Morale, my boy, is what counts. Man-power and tonnage and fire-power are important, of course, but morale has won every war in history. And our morale right now is higher than a cat's back—higher than any time since John Paul Jones—and getting higher by the day.

We as a human community need to develop a new competency. We need to move from a single-cell social organism to a multicellular social organism. While making this evolutionary leap is no easy task, staring into the abyss is a strong motivator.

If only non-hypocrites are going to fight for the environment then it will be an army of none. (60)

families from remote stations

Sex and love are inseparable, like life and consciousness. —D. H. LAWRENCE

For the sum of everything was a circle, and the circle was labelled Zero

The safety of Americans' health isn't – and shouldn't be – a polarizing issue.