#unity

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

#individuality #r-alan-woods #unity #unity-in-the-church #r-alan-woods

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

#r-alan-woods #unity-in-the-church #r-alan-woods

If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it. ↗

— Temitope Owosela

#happiness #opportunity #success #existentialism

Why hadn't she just said yes? Then she could have driven alone back to the city [...] and picked up some guy and brought him back home and screwed him and kicked him out and then picked up her daughter at the train the next day like a spy or a con artist, as if the two sides of herself didn't even care to know each other. But it was too late for that. Not just in terms of her ever becoming the kind of woman who knew how to do that kind of thing, without exposing herself as deluded or pathetic or ridiculous. ↗

— Jonathan Dee

#opportunity #passionate-living #women #home

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#jesus #love #love

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees. ↗

— T.H. White

#unity #humor

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return. ↗

— Solange nicole

#compassion-wisdom #love #people #selflessness #solange

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important. ↗

— Alan Sakowitz

#character #community #family #financial-thriller #inspirational

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. ↗

— 118

#death-penalty #family #last-words #love #death

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment? ↗

— Jean Said Makdisi

#community #punishment #death