Francis Bacon Quotes

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

The Scripture says that God blesses where men walk in unity, so we just thought it's good for us to come together as Democrats, Republicans; believers, nonbelievers, all different walks of life and say hey, we are here to celebrate the goodness of God.

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

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.

There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.

Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.

I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.