Quotes about Equality
So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.
- Patrick Lencioni
Sexist leaders who do not respect the God-given gifts of women and who may even relate to them inappropriately have forsaken their ambassadorial calling.
- Paul David Tripp
It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without the Christian culture, to consider pagans, humanists, and Jews as members of the latent Spiritual Community and not as complete strangers who are invited into the Spiritual Community from outside. This insight serves as a powerful weapon against ecclesiastical and hierarchical arrogance.
- Paul Tillich
It will also challenge attitudes that subjugate women in ways that he himself clearly and consistently redressed.
- Pete Greig
To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.
- Peter Enns
We should linger here for a moment, for it summarizes a main theme of Paul's letters: God's unexpected move—Jesus's death and resurrection—places Jews and Gentiles on equal footing with God.
- Peter Enns
White privilege is not an overt act of racism but the simple observation that people of white skin are historically and culturally dominant, and therefore seen as the standard or norm.
- Peter Enns
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
- Genesis 5:2
Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Genesis 18:25
The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
- Exodus 12:49
So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less.
- Exodus 16:17
When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
- Exodus 16:18