Quotes About Diversity

Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.

People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language.

Astounded and amazed, they asked, “Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?

How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?

Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,

both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

But resistance arose from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and men from the provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They began to argue with Stephen,

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, as well as birds of the air.

Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”

He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.

Then I heard a voice saying to me, ëGet up, Peter, kill and eat.í

In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.

From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek.

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?