Quotes About Inclusion

For access to the church of God was open to the Gentiles who were to take the place left empty by the Jews.

Having won over his own people—in itself no mean feat, for they were a disparate bunch, drawn from all manner of creeds, colors, and tribes—he then went out and won over the enemy.

One is denying the revelation of God in Jesus Christ if one tries to be "Christian" without seeing and recognizing the world in Christ.34

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

Mr. Berger found himself consigned to the dusty ranks of the council's spinsters and bachelors, to the army of the closeted, the odd, and the sad, although he was none of these things. Well, perhaps just a little of the latter:

It is not surprising that efforts to keep gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in their place arise in the wedding context. Sexual orientation is a relational property; it's about the sex or gender of the people with whom you have relationships or desire to have relationships. It manifests itself in the context of those relationships, and unless it manifests itself, would-be discriminators can't target it.

the ultimate objective of antidiscrimination law is not to punish haters (not all discriminators are haters) but to ensure equal access in the public sphere. This

but that they would be forced to participate in or help celebrate

Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.

the world bars strangers or makes them present their papers—but the kingdom offers them hospitality and invites them to the wedding feast.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life. To form habits of social usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, apart from any existing social situation, is, to the letter, teaching the child to swim by going through motions outside of the water.

The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal.

he converted not from Judaism to Christianity, of course, but from violent opponent and persecutor of pagan inclusion to nonviolent proponent and persuader of pagan inclusion. That which he persecuted for God was exactly that to which he was called by God.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield

I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!

Christianity and the Holy Spirit is not just for a special group of people, it's for all of us. That's when I really began to seek God and his will for my life.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.