Quotes about Inclusive Community
We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.
— Blase J. Cupich
Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.
— Elizabeth George
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world…. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.
— Philip Yancey
The Church is a family expecting guests.
— Andy Stanley
We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
— Maya Angelou
Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
— John Lennox
There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no 'male and female'; you are all one in the Messiah, Jesus.
— NT Wright
Our commission is to compassionately reach out to those around us, invite them to join us in community, share the story of the gospel, make disciples, and gather them into families to follow Jesus together.
— Mike Breen
The divine intention, as Paul saw it unveiled in the messianic events concerning Jesus, was to create a single worldwide family; and therefore any practices that functioned as symbols dividing different ethnic groups could not be maintained as absolutes within this single family.
— NT Wright
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.
— Thomas Merton
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
— CS Lewis