In writing these Tales ... at long intervals, I have kept the book-unity always in mind ... with reference to its effect as part o...f a whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humili...ty and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saint...s for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he neve...r made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity throu...gh multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of t...ime that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castle...s is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »