Quotes about Unity

If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

But when you begin to celebrate the sovereignty of God and how he formed you and brought you and your spouse together for his glory and your good, you quit being irritated by your differences and start celebrating how your life has been enhanced by them. As a result, you will not only give room to your spouse's sensibilities, but you will honor him or her in what you do and say in the moments when you are confronted with the differences in your approach to the very same things.

But if it is life alone that dies, love is born, which is the innermost part of the spirit. It is the most mature and most precious fruit of the life that sacrifices itself. Love breaks out of the prison of individualism and nationalist stupidity. Love goes to another person, even one with a different language or of a different race, and returns from him richer.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

The marriage covenant should be strong enough to endure pressure from within and from without

and each spouse in the relationship should believe that the other is worth saving and the marriage is worth fighting for.

God is mobilising an army, but it is a broken army that marches on its knees.

diversity in no way implies chaos or error.