Unity in Diversity

“There is perfect brotherhood underlying humanity, for all are servants of one God and belong to one family under the protection of divine providence.”

— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”

-Psalm 133:1

“If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.”

— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.”

-Rumi

“O Children of Men! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.”

-Baha’u’llah

“So powerful is the light of unity, that it can illuminate the whole earth.” 

-Baha’u’llah

“Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.”

-Rumi

“The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.”

-Abdu’l-Baha

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”

-Buddha

‘’If we are lovers of the light we adore it in whatever lamp it may become manifest, but if we love the lamp itself and the light is transferred to another lamp we will neither accept nor sanction it. Therefore we must follow and adore the virtues revealed in the messengers of God whether in Abraham, Moses, Jesus or other prophets but we must not adhere to and adore the lamp.”

-Abdu’l-Baha

“The peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion, derive their inspiration from one heavenly source and are the subjects of one God.”

-Baha’u’llah

“Religion must be conducive to love and unity among mankind; for if it be the cause of enmity and strife, the absence of religion is preferable.”

-Abdu’l-Baha

“The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”

-Baha’u’llah

“Speak not of peoples and laws and kingdoms, for the whole earth is My birthplace and all humans are my brothers.”

-Gibran

“Religions are different roads converging upon the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal?”

-Gandhi

“The believers, in their mutual love, mercy and compassion, are like one body: if one organ complained, the rest of the body develops a fever.”

-Prophet Muhammad

“Let them look not upon a man’s colour but upon his heart.”

-Abdu’l-Baha

“O Thou kind Lord! Unite all. Let the religions agree and make the nations one, so that they may see each other as one family and the whole earth as one home. May they all love together in perfect harmony.”

-Baha’u’llah

“Close your eyes to racial differences, and welcome all with the light of oneness.”

-Baha’u’llah

“O Thou kind Lord!  Thou hast created all humanity from the same stock.  Thou hast decreed that all shall belong to the same household.  In Thy Holy Presence they are all Thy servants, and all mankind are sheltered beneath Thy Tabernacle; all have gathered together at Thy Table of Bounty; all are illumined through the light of Thy Providence.” 

-Baha’u’llah