Quotes About Diversity

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

trying to force yourself to be different never really works.

Our attention is attracted to what's new, remember, so using varied skills focuses our attention on them, thus making purpose more salient.

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it!

My truth" becomes opposed to, or destructive of, "your truth." To return to the image I already used: when we take the tropical bird of religious language and put it in a cage, it becomes a bird of prey.

the religions of the world have to come together, not to form a new, singular religion but to form a dialogical community of communities.

And yet, and yet, if my belief in Jesus as the only Son of God requires me, explicitly or implicitly, to denigrate or subordinate other religious figures and religions, then such a belief becomes a clot in the free and life-giving flow of my faith's circulatory system. I'm sorry. It just does.

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

Scholars in a great many disciplines focus their studies on human beings. The main differences between the disciplines are not the objects of their study nor even the methods they use, but the points of view that guide their inquiries.

it's still something of a shock to recognise just how 'multiple' we are.

All roads lead to Mecca Bingo.

People Like Us Taking Over

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Again and again pantheists have arisen from within all three religions, sometimes disguising their views carefully enough to avoid persecution - sometimes being condemned as heretics.

The pantheist "God" is the community of all beings. It is not a He, or a She, or an It. It is a "We," and a we in the broadest and most inclusive sense, embracing everything from rocks and algae, through butterflies and humans, to suns and planets.

Novelists and poets are the landscape artists and portrait painters; academic writers are the people with big paint sprayers who repaint your basement.

I am convinced that an intolerant monotheism is a greater danger in today's world than a tolerant polytheism.

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences a country that respects all, regardless of their differences a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too

It's pretty simple. When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.

Now, here's a more intriguing game: imagine if Amazon, Toyota or Boeing tried to create Wikipedia. Without

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.