Quotes about Exclusion

Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.

If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour , March 9, 1998]

Pauline, what would you do if your own brother had a party and didn't invite you?' I said ifn I really wanted to go to that party, I reckoned I'd go anyhow. Never mind what he want. She just sucked her teeth a little and made out like what I said was dumb. All the while I was thinking how dumb she was. Whoever told her that her brother was her friend? Folks can't like folks just 'cause they has the same mama.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.