Three quotes about unity in the Church

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I thought with all the back and forth over the past two weeks, we’d do well to remember the truths of our faith.

Men, women, children, profoundly divided in nationality, race, language, walk of life, work, knowledge, rank or means… all these she recreates in the Spirit. On all in the same measure she imprints a divine character. All receive of her a single nature which cannot be divided and by reason of which their many and deep differences can no longer be held in account. By it all are brought up and united in a truly Catholic manner. For (in the Church) no one is in the slightest degree separated from the community, all are fused together, so to speak, one in another, by the mere and undivided strength of faith… Christ is also all in all, for he encloses all in himself by his sole power, infinite and all wise in its goodness, like the center to which all lines converge, so that all the creatures of the one God should not be strangers or enemies to each other without common ground whereon to show their friendship and the peace between them. — St. Maximus

…of one and all Christ makes a single body. Thus he who lives in Rome may look on the Indians as his own members. Is there any union that may be likened to this? Christ is the head of all. — St. John Chrysostom

You unite together the inhabitants of the cities, the different peoples, nay the whole human race, by belief in our common origin, so that men are not satisfied in being joined together, but become in some sort brothers. — St. Augustine