Quotes About Unity

Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love!

if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes. . . .

At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch.

love is larger than the walls that shut it in. M

And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb. I would think of Haarlem, each substantial church set behind its wrought-iron fence and its barrier of doctrine. And I would know again that in darkness God's truth shines most clear.

AND SO THE shadow fell across us that winter afternoon in 1937, but it rested lightly. Nobody dreamed that this tiny cloud would grow until it blocked out the sky. And nobody dreamed that in this darkness each of us would be called to play a role: Father and Betsie and Mr. Kan and Willem—even the funny old Beje with its unmatching floor levels and ancient angles.

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street—and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

I slipped my arm beneath Betsie's shoulders and half-carried her the final quarter-mile. At last the path ended and we lined up facing the single track, over a thousand women standing toe to heel.

That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. And

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

as different as earth and sky but bound by some mysterious connection

A stable Country equals a stable world

This wasn't just some girl—this was Lauren. Lauren, the girl you marry.

The unity of divine revelation, of the various dispensations, is found in the goal of history, the kingdom of God. And since this kingdom is centered in the person and work of Jesus Christ, the dispensational unity of Scripture and of history is Christological as much as it is eschatological.

I'm a great believer in the power of laughter. I think it can bring people together, even when they disagree about everything else.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

It 's the time of year when Canadians mate.

If our lives are to be shaped by the story of Scripture, we need to understand two things well: the biblical story is a compelling unity on which we may depend, and each of us has a place within that story.