Quotes about Unity
what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.
— Philip Yancey
In the study of scientific atheism, there was the idea that religion divides people. Now we see the opposite: love for God can only unite.
— Philip Yancey
It occurs to me, in fact, that laughter has much in common with prayer. In both acts, we stand on equal ground, freely acknowledging ourselves as fallen creatures. We take ourselves less seriously. We think of our creatureliness. Work divides and ranks; laughter and prayer unite. Finding God in Unexpected Places(245
— Philip Yancey
If God's kingdom had a "No Oddballs Allowed" sign posted, none of us could get in.
— Philip Yancey
The message of this book has the power to reform the church, one relationship at a time.
— Philip Yancey
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world…. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.
— Philip Yancey
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Az ember az Ã…' számára a világ szeretetét jelentette, és itt zárul le a megszentelés köre.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.
— Barack Obama