Quotes about Unity

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appears, we can ask Him: were You here before?

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

This is the bread of affliction which our forefathers ate in the land of Egypt. Let all those who are hungry come and eat with us. Let all those who are in need come and share our meal. This year we are here. Next year may we all be in the land of Israel.

And throughout those evenings a conviction grew in me that [he] would draw me with him into eternity, into that time where question and answer would become one.

For memory is a blessing: it creates bonds rather than destroys them.

Help each other. That is the only way to survive.

Insistence that both lead means there won't be any dance.

God might have given Adam another man to be his friend, to walk and talk and argue with if that was his pleasure. But Adam needed more than the companionship of the animals or the friendship of a man. He needed a helper, specially designed and prepared to fill that role. It was a woman God gave him, a woman, "meet," fit, suitable, entirely appropriate for him, made of his very bones and flesh.

Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.