Quotes about Unity
When those that we have formerly been conversant with, are turning to God, and joining themselves to his people, it ought to be our firm resolution, that we will not leave them; but that their people shall be our people, and their God our God. It
— Jonathan Edwards
It should be our firm and inflexible resolution in such a case that it shall be no parting, but that we will follow them, that their people shall be our people, and their God our God; and that for the following reasons: I. Because their God is a glorious God.
— Jonathan Edwards
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
— Epicurus
I write this not for the many, but for you; each of us is enough of an audience for the other.
— Epicurus
As President Truman put it, "Being an American is more than a matter of where you or your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal".
— Eric Metaxas
May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory!
— Eric Metaxas
Formerly they had been the bitterest foes, but behold, they were now united against their common enemies—common decency and common sense!
— Eric Metaxas
A person's strength comes solely from being united with the will of God.
— Eric Metaxas
The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history.
— Eric Metaxas
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.
— Eric Metaxas
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.
— Eric Metaxas
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.
— Eric Metaxas