Quotes about Unity

Truth was the only superglue that could mend the cracks in her family.

Christians crawled out of the woodwork when crisis hit... Christians weren't roaches.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ.

Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity.

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

No one can become a new man except by entering the Church, and becoming a member of the body of Christ. It is impossible to become a new man as a solitary individual. The new man means more than the individual believer after he has been justified and sanctified. It means the Church, the Body of Christ, in fact it means Christ himself.

Only in Jesus Christ are we one, only through him are we bound together.

We can never achieve this 'wholeness' simply by ourselves, but only together with others…