Powerful Quotes on Unity

Jesus is a reconciler of people, not a divider. He wants to bring people together, not finalize separations.

Paul’s vision in Ephesians is one of a single, united people of God, created through the cross to embody peace and reconciliation.

God put the body together in such a way that those who experience honor in this life and those who do not are to astound the world by their unity and their concern for one another.

I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hour, in Christia...

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

In Essentials Unity; In Non-Essentials Liberty; In All Things Charity

It is well known that Pentecost reverses Babel. The people who built the tower of Babel sought to make a name, and a unity, for themselves. At Pentecost, God builds his temple, uniting people in Chris...

From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

There can be more genuine fellowship among those who share the same disposition than among those who share the same beliefs, especially if that disposition is toward kindness and generosity

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

The Power—the Spirit—is thus a social power, working to bring all minds into its own unity, sometimes by similarity and at other times by contrast. There is a diversity of gifts, but the same spirit.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his refle...

Ultimately we are not concerned only with the unity of the church. Christ is the unity of the world. Not only the middle wall of partition separating Jew and Gentile must be moved if Christ is to real...

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because it is pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, say...

Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love ...

It is in the uncomfortable dialogues that include all the voices, and in the transformative practices that employ all the bodies that the identity of Christ and the identity of Christ’s body converges...

Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.

Jesus organized the church, which is His vineyard. He commands all to go into the vineyard and work. All who are united to Christ by faith, and are thus members of His mystical body, should be members...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross ...

Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.

Just as in other parts of the Christian credo, the assertion of the church as one holy catholic and apostolic is meant to be understood eschatologically. By that is meant that these characteristics ar...

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

To a true child of God, the invisible bond that unites all believers to Christ is far more tender, and lasting, and precious; and, as we come to recognize and realize that we are all dwelling in one s...

There are walls that need to come down. You can pray unity but then you have to work unity by demonstrating what unity really looks like.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.