1/15/2024 0 Comments Famous unity quotes![]() ![]() ![]() “We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.” W. ![]() Du Bois (1968)Ĭhosen by Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at Tufts University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams still live.” W. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Ĭhosen by Jay Cephas, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Northeastern University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.” W. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town or, I fought at Mechanicsville or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may inquire. “Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. ![]() The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.Group portrait of Du Bois and friends and family at his 70th birthday celebration at Atlanta University, 1938. Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.įaith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one. The revelation of God is positively essential. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. All who are united to Christ by faith, and are thus members of His mystical body, should be members of His visible church. He commands all to go into the vineyard and work. Jesus organized the church, which is His vineyard. It not only attracts the particles of iron to itself by the magnetic virtue, but by this virtue it unites them one to another. The union of Christians to Christ, their common head, and by means of the influence they derive from him, one to another, may be illustrated by the loadstone. In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity. To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. The first requisite is life, always.īy faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. Part of a large selection of Christian quotes and sayings in a variety of topics by famous people, authors, theologians, pastors, preachers, teachers, and other notable Christians. You're here: » Christian Quotes » Unity QuotesĬHRISTIAN QUOTES ON Unity. ![]()
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