Quotes about Unity
As soon as you have given yourself to God with all your heart and seek neither this nor that for your own pleasure and purpose, but place yourself completely in His charge, you shall find yourself at peace, united with Him, because nothing will be so sweet, nothing will please you so much as the good pleasure of His will.
— Thomas a Kempis
of the primitive Christians at Jerusalem
— Thomas a Kempis
Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." ~ Ruth 1: 16, 17
— Thomas a Kempis
The highest does not stand without the lowest.
— Thomas a Kempis
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall have abundance of peace.
— Thomas a Kempis
We are not wise in ourselves.7 So we must support one another,8 be tolerant of each other,9 help, teach and advise one another. It is in times of trouble that we really discover the true value of our helpers. They do not weaken us, but reveal their true nature.
— Thomas a Kempis
The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;
— Thomas a Kempis
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
— St. Thomas Aquinas