Quotes about Unity

May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory!

Formerly they had been the bitterest foes, but behold, they were now united against their common enemies—common decency and common sense!

A person's strength comes solely from being united with the will of God.

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history.

Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.

As television has had a homogenizing effect on the accents and dialects of Americans, watering down accents and sanding down sharp twangs, Luther's Bible created a single German tongue. Suddenly millers from München could communicate with bakers from Bremen. Out of this grew a sense of a common heritage and facilitating communication among diverse regions.

He and his allies declared that every human being was equal in God's sight and made in the image of God, and must therefore be treated with equal dignity.

One day we shall know and see what today we believe; one day we shall hold a service together in eternity.

Years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Surely this sabbath, of all others, calls forth these feelings in a supreme degree; a frame of united love and triumph well becomes it, and holy confidence and unrestrained affection.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

They understood that America would not flourish without great help from all Americans.