Quotes About Harmony

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

Reply to Objection 3: The universe, the present creation being supposed, cannot be better, on account of the most beautiful order given to things by God; in which the good of the universe consists. For if any one thing were bettered, the proportion of order would be destroyed; as if one string were stretched more than it ought to be, the melody of the harp would be destroyed.

BEDE. But though there were four Evangelists, yet what they wrote is not so much four Gospels, as one true harmony of four books. (non occ.) For as two verses having the same substance, but different words and different metre, yet contain one and the same matter, so the books of the Evangelists, though four in number, yet contain one Gospel, teaching one doctrine of the Catholic faith.

We shall get on famously...and be capital friends forever.

Concentration, lovingkindness, and peace. That is all." Imagine being a person

Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."

You are a Christian today only because God was the first to seek peace with you. You are now called and equipped to be the first to seek after peace and to attempt to pursue and maintain unity. As you do this you have the high honor of acting as an imitator of God.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Nature is the art of God.

All places, all airs, make unto me one Countrey; I am in England every where, and under any Meridian. I have been shipwrackt, yet am not enemy with the Sea or Winds; I can study, play, or sleep in a Tempest. In brief, I am averse from nothing:

So near the track of the stars are we, That oft, on night's pale beams, The distant sounds of their harmony Come to our ears, like dreams. The Moon, too, brings her world so nigh, That when the night-seer looks To that shadowless orb, in a vernal sky, He can number its hills and brooks. To the Sun god all our hearts and lyres, By day, by night, belong; And the breath we draw from his living fires We give him back in song

In the Godhead all historical inequalities are finally transcended.

There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5).

I see a sweet country. I could rest my weapon there.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;No harp like my own could so cheerily play,And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

Ye are brothers! ye are men!And we conquer but to save.

Oh leave this barren spot to me!Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!

the soul of conversation is sympathy