Quotes about Harmony

But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace.

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

to make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,

Even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught to us by faith cannot be contrary to what we are endowed with by nature. One or the other would have to be false, and since we have both of them from God, he would be the cause of our error, which is impossible.

Reply to Objection 3: The universe, the present creation being supposed, cannot be better, on account of the most beautiful order given to things by God; in which the good of the universe consists. For if any one thing were bettered, the proportion of order would be destroyed; as if one string were stretched more than it ought to be, the melody of the harp would be destroyed.