Quotes about Unity

The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us, creates harmony and unity, and gives us courage and joy for mission.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Jesus honored the dignity of people, whether he agreed with them or not. He would not found his kingdom on the basis of race or class or other such divisions.

My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out in the midst of people who have many differences but share this one thing in common. We are charged to live out a kind of alternative society before the eyes of the watching world, a world that is increasingly moving toward tribalism and division.

Jesus' death, he said, broke down the temple barriers, dismantling the dividing walls of hostility that had separated categories of people. Grace found a way.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.