Quotes about Harmony
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
— Frederick Buechner
You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!
— Frederick Douglass
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.
— Frederick Douglass
Peace is first of all the art of being.
— Henri Nouwen
There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.
— Henri Nouwen
Joy and resentment cannot coexist.
— Henri Nouwen
If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way
— Henri Nouwen
I am asking for a conversion of our whole person so that all we do, say, and think becomes part of our urgent vocation to be peacemakers… Peacemaking is not restricted by any schedule, job, or talent. It is as universal a calling as the call to love." (pg.23)
— Henri Nouwen
The children of God have more in common then they have differences.
— Henry B. Eyring
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.
— Henry B. Eyring
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
— Henry David Thoreau