Quotes about Unity

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

However strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too.

Love—God's love to me, and my love to God, and my love to my fellowmen. The three are one; you cannot separate them.

The blood was shed to unite us to God.

Do we not begin to fear that love has fled from the earth? That if we were to ask the world: "Have you seen us wear the badge of love?" the world would say: "No; what we have heard of the Church of Christ is that there is not a place where there is no quarreling and separation." Let us ask God with one heart that we may wear the badge of Jesus' love. God is able to give it.

We must enter into a covenant with God that we will love one another with a heavenly love.

In love to our brothers, we have the evidence of love to the Father, the basis of confidence before God, and the assurance that our prayer will be heard.

Those who love most are the most ready for His coming. Love to each other is the life and beauty of His bride, the church.

We not only learn to say, 'My Father,' but also 'Our Father.' Nothing would be more unnatural than for the children of a family to always meet their father alone but never in the united expression of their desires or their love.

It is evident everywhere that Paul felt he was a member of a body - a body on which he was dependent for sympathy and cooperation. He counted on the prayers of these churches to gain for himself what otherwise might not be given. To him the prayers of the church were as real a factor in the work of the kingdom as the power of God.