Quotes about Commonality
No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
— Ben Carson
Charity must teach us that friendship is a holy thing, and that it is neither charitable nor holy to base our friendship on falsehood. We can be, in some sense, friends to all men because there is no man on earth with whom we do not have something in common. But it would be false to treat too many men as intimate friends. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.
— Thomas Merton
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
— Anne Frank
There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.
— J. Vernon McGee
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
— Mark Twain
We are so different, yet so much the same.
— Gloria Steinem
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
— Proverbs 22:2
I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality.
— Richard Paul Evans
We can be, in some sense, friends to all men because there is no man on earth with whom we do not have something in common. But it would be false to treat too many men as intimate friends. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. Love, then, must
— Thomas Merton
The writers of the scriptures consistently affirm that we're all part of the same family. What we have in common—regardless of our tribe, language, customs, beliefs, or religion—outweighs our differences. This is why God wants "all people to be saved.
— Rob Bell
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.
— Miroslav Volf