Quotes about Oneness

I have given them the glory you gave to me, That may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may be so perfected in unity that the world will recognize that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me. (JOHN 17:22—23 NJB)

Prayer is standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart; that is, at that point of our being where there are no divisions or distinctions and where we are totally one. There God's Spirit dwells and there the great encounter takes place. There heart speaks to heart, because there we stand before the face of the Lord, all-seeing, with us.

As long as our loneliness brings us together with the hope that together we no longer will be alone, we castigate each other with our unfulfilled and unrealistic desires for oneness, inner tranquility and the uninterrupted experience of communion.

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Everything is connected to everything else: every rock, every living form, is infused by the same force. To say this is to put the lie to a million false dualities, to all the forced seperations between spirit and mind, soul and body, God and man.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

Sharing the Body of Christ in Holy Communion wipes out all accidental distinctions of race, class, or condition. Here we are one with the whole of redeemed humanity...

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man—and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose the world. One world, made up of all things. One divinity, present in them all.