Edith Stein Quotes

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

There's a big difference between oneness and sameness. Oneness implies that we're all connected and that we all come from the same source. Sameness implies that we all have to do things and exactly think the same way as everybody else does.

The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.