Quotes about Unity

All human beings have always aspired to an idyll, to that garden where nightingales sing, to that realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man and man against other men, but rather where the world and all men are shaped from one and the same matter. There, everyone is a note in a sublime Bach fugue, and anyone who refuses to be one is a mere useless and meaningless black dot that need only be caught and crushed between thumb and finger like a flea.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Now he too tried hard to think of something else (it was the only thing they had in common), so as to be able to go on making love to her.

The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

The way God operates is on the basis of love.

I'm going to fight to bring us all together, we're a divided nation. Very divided nation right now. We're going to be unified nation, a nation of love.