Quotes About Church Unity

#1. Church unity comes from corporate humility.

Leonard Ravenhill

#2. The two basic attitudes of life that must characterize genuine, biblical spirituality are thankfulness at all times and in all circumstances and the maintenance of unity in that part of the body of Christ.

Charles C. Ryrie

#3. Selfishness is the root of all jealousy. When we are caught up thinking about ourselves, we can't think about anyone else.

Anna M. Aquino

#4. In today's society, Christians have a bad rap for things like holding picketing signs, screaming mantras of hate, and bombing abortion clinics. Somehow, I don't think that's showing love.

Anna M. Aquino

#5. We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, the loved disciples born in the blood of the Cross and fed on the Word of God.

Megan McKenna

#6. Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions; they don't control you.

Anna M. Aquino

#7. We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

Roger Williams

#8. The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

Stanley Hauerwas

#9. Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

Eric Hoffer

#10. 60. The use of the Latin language customary in a considerable portion of the Church is a manifest and beautiful sign of unity, as well as an effective antidote for any corruption of doctrine truth.

Pope Pius XII

#11. Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Francis Bacon

#12. (3) Singing can help us use words to demonstrate and express our unity, which means singing songs that unite us instead of divide us, recognizing that musical creativity in the church has functional limits and that it is ultimately the gospel, not music, that unites us in Christ.

John Piper

#13. The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it.

Hugh Martin

#14. In the Episcopal Church I find a healthy sense of unity and diversity. In this tradition we recognize that that which holds the church together is more important than that which divides the church.

Robert E. Webber

#15. What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

George Carey

#16. But I knew that we had really met, she the Catholic from Eastern Europe, I the Protestant from the West. There on the crowded tramway platform we had met as Christians.

Brother Andrew

#17. When the people in a church dwell together in the unity of the gospel and together pursue the building up of one another in love, they are providing fertile soil for the roots of deep joy. But

Matt Chandler

#18. The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

Barbara Tuchman

#19. I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.

Anna M. Aquino

#20. A thousand minus one is never a thousand

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. If your temper is violent towards your brothers and sisters in the Lord, whose kingdom are you trying to build?

Anna M. Aquino

#22. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit, who is truly the author of this unity in variety, of this harmony, that he might make us ever more "catholic" in this Church that is catholic and universal!

Pope Francis

#23. The definition of unity is oneness of purpose, not sameness of being. Like a quilt with various colors and patterns that have been blended together into a harmonious whole, a church in unity celebrates each person's unique place in the divine design.

Tony Evans

#24. The Holy Spirit is the mover. This is why prayer is important. It is the soul of our commitment as men and women of communion, of unity. Pray to the Holy Spirit that he may come and create unity in the Church.

Pope Francis

#25. despite the visible disunity of the church throughout the world, we can rightly attribute unity to the church insofar as it is the same Holy Spirit who enables the church in all of its manifestations to bear witness to Jesus Christ and to worship the Holy Trinity in truth and love.

Jason E. Vickers

#26. That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

Eliphas Levi

#27. Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

Mark Dever

#28. There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

Saint Augustine

#29. If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#30. Having true compassion for people isn't about the words that are spoken and the actions that are done. Having true compassion is an attitude from the heart that can't be faked.

Anna M. Aquino

#31. I don't believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches - whatever specific forms our gatherings take - to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.

Francis Chan

#32. Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique individuality and personal identity

R. Alan Woods

#33. Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems".

~R. Alan Woods [2006]

R. Alan Woods

#34. Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one ... 'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity.

Pope Benedict XVI

#35. In order to get some help in your love walk, all you have to do is ask God to let you see these people through His eyes.

Anna M. Aquino

#36. We've become very good in our churches today at faking our concern when really we couldn't care less about the people around us.

Anna M. Aquino

#37. mission is what "God is doing in the world through the church, and even without the church, to bring his creation to its consummation: unity and fullness in Jesus Christ.

Sarah Bessey

#38. One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.

A.W. Tozer

#39. We may not all be on the same chapter, but we should be in the same book".

~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods

#40. The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

William P. Leahy

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

Thomas Aquinas

#42. I saw a lot of working class men and women - myself included - living a deeper, more thoughtful life than would have been possible without the church... The sense of belonging to something big, something important, lent unity and meaning.

Jeanette Winterson

#43. The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.

Pope John Paul II

#44. Chan is drawn to his coauthor because he says they have, "different gifts but similar convictions".

Francis Chan

#45. Humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love to preserve unity! These, these are the roads, the true roads of the Church. Let us listen to this again. Humility against vanity, against arrogance - humility, meekness, magnanimity, and love preserve unity.

Pope Francis

#46. In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

Rupertus Meldenius

#47. The church of God will stand firm in unity, preach the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. And no one I mean no one will prevail against it in Jesus name.

Euginia Herlihy