Quotes about Unity

God at his best (and he always is) does not have favorite children.

Churches are not franchises to be reproduced as exactly as possible wherever and whenever—in Rome and Moscow and London and Baltimore—the only thing changed being the translation of the menu.

For centuries this psalm was sung on the road as throngs of people made the ascent to Jerusalem for festival worship. Our imaginations readily reconstruct those scenes. How great to have everyone sharing a common purpose, traveling a common path, striving toward a common goal, that path and purpose and goal being God.

The people of Birmingham also have souls.

Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.

Scripture knows nothing of the solitary Christian. People of faith are always members of a community. Creation itself was not complete until there was community, Adam needing Eve before humanity was whole. God never works with individuals in isolation, but always with people in community.

Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples — when they see the love you have for each other.

It announces the existence of a people who assemble to worship God and disperse to live to God's glory, whose lives are bordered on one side by a memory of God's acts and the other by hope in God's promises, and who along with whatever else is happening are able to say, at the center, "We are one happy people."

I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

For me, the idea of releasing a free record is powerful if everybody gets it for free at the same time.