Quotes About Unity

If we are a people rich in social relationships, we are rich indeed. Whenever we develop significant friendships with those who are not like us culturally, we become broader, wiser persons.

Little children, love one another.

Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). The astonishing new reality in this mighty flow of the Spirit is how sovereignly God is bringing together streams of life that have been isolated from one another for a very long time.

We pass from thinking of God as part of our life to the realization that we are part of his life.

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Dallas Willard writes, "If you want to experience the flow of love as never before, the next time you are in a competitive situation, pray that the others around you will be more outstanding, more praised, and more used of God than yourself. If Christians were universally to do this for each other, the earth would soon be filled with the knowledge of God's glory."4

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger. —From the breastplate of St. Patrick

To be effective pray-ers, we need to be effective lovers.

Father God, you sent your Son to this earth that we may be one, and yet we fail so miserably. We look out for our own interests first and put your work last. We allow ourselves to be separated by jealousy and bitterness and misunderstanding. Forgive us for our failures. Teach us to hold Jesus before us always, with the knowledge and understanding that only through him can our fellowship work and magnify your name. Amen.

The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.

You don't have to be afraid of me. Eugene likes you. Doc likes you. That means I like you. We're all family now. All the funny little people who live in the cracks of the world.

All are equal in the grave.

He hands me a cup full of the black stuff. I hold it up and say, "To freaks everywhere." Vidocq holds up his mug. "May you fly, walk, swim, or crawl for all eternity under the noses of our betters.

We few, we happy few, we band of horrors. For they today who shed their blood with me shall be my brothers, my sisters, my blessed beasts. Now. Go forth and make creation weep.

The Magistrate and Empress stand arm in arm like the monster-movie American Gothic.

cooperation is the highest from of self-interest.

There is no space between love and destiny

Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

In that quietness they were speaking their own language, with their eyes, with the way they stood, with what they put into the air about them, each knowing what the other was saying, and having strength one from the other, for they had been learning through forty years of being together, and their minds were one.

Wilson defines biophilia as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.

Though we often see ourselves as separate from nature, humans are also part of that wildness.

As we grow more separate from nature, we continue to separate from one another physically.