Quotes about Unity

The words, actions and sufferings of Jesus form an aesthetic unity, held together by the 'style' of unconditional love.

An affirmation of a paradoxical unity of ontological opposites, rooted in the Chalcedonian Understanding of the Person of Christ—"one individual or person subsisting in two natures, without confusion or change, without division or separation".

This paradox of a synthesis that unites creatures by distinguishing them and distinguishes them by uniting them—a paradox that can be found throughout the whole edifice of the universe—takes its origin in the most original relation of all things: their relation to God.

The heart of this relationship is that there is one universal presence of the cause of all that is, secretly and unrecognizably binding all things together, yet dwelling in each being in a different way; this presence holds the individual parts of the whole together, in itself and in each other, unconfused and inseparable, and allows them, through this very relationship of creative unity, to live more for each other than for themselves.

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.