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All in Good Faith
Communities in Unity
It is sweet to have friends in need: and to share enjoyment is sweet. (Dhammapada)
May you be drawn together in friendship and may extraordinary development make brotherhood a reality and truth.
(Foundations of World Unity)
Who to consider the true community of faith? Where there is discourse about the one God We are commanded to worship one God. Nanak, the true Guru has solved this mystery.
(Adi Granth)
O mankind! behold, we have created you all out of a male and female, and have made you into nations and tribes, so that you might come to know one another. Verily, the noblest among you in the sight of God is the one who is most deeply conscious of Him.
(Holy Qur'an)
I pray to Thee, O Lord of Wisdom, and wish that want of faith and evil intention may remain away from Thy flock. Also, I wish that perverse thought and obstinacy may be kept away from the self-reliant; deceit and enmity from the near relatives; slanderers and blamers from friends; and the wicked and deceitful leaders from the world.
(Yasna)
If God had so willed, He could surely have made you all one single community; but [He willed otherwise] to test you by means of what He has vouchsafed unto you. Vie, then, with one another in doing good works. Unto God you must all return; and then He will make you truly understand all that on which you were wont to differ.
(Holy Qu'ran)
Love is productive of all right actions. It leads a Christian into an earnest and steady discharge of all social offices, of whatever is due to relations of every kind; to his friends, to his country and to any particular
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community whereof he is a member. It prevents his willingly hurting or grieving any man. It guides him into a uniform practice of justice and mercy, equally extensive with the principle whence it flows. It constrains him to do all possible good, of every possible kind, to all men; and makes him invariably resolved in every circumstance of life to do that, and that only, to others, which supposing he were himself in the same situation, he would desire they should do to him.
(John Wesley)
