Quotes about Unity

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall have abundance of peace.

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.

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

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?

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

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

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

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

Thus Dionysius says (Div. Nom. cap. ult.) that "there is no kind of multitude that is not in a way one. But what are many in their parts, are one in their whole; and what are many in accidents, are one in subject; and what are many in number, are one in species; and what are many in species, are one in genus; and what are many in processions, are one in principle." Reply to Objection 3: It does not follow that it is nugatory to say "being" is "one"; forasmuch as "one" adds an idea to "being.