Pastoral Resources

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.