Quotes about Unity

Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up…Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break." Ecclesiastes 4:9 (TEV)

God expects unity, not uniformity, and we can walk arm-in-arm without seeing eye-to-eye on every issue.

Jesus said our love for each other—not our doctrinal beliefs — is our greatest witness to the world. He said, "Your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are my disciples."4

They are your family, even when they don't act like it, and you can't just walk out on them. Instead God tells us, "Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love." 7

Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you; then God will be glorified.

The Bible is filled with verses on the importance of community. Hebrews 10:25 says, "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another" (NIV 1984). Galatians 6:2 says, "By helping each other with your troubles, you truly obey the law of Christ" (NCV).

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.