Quotes about Diversity

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

There are only three ways to deal with non-Muslims under Islamic law: They must be converted, they must be subjugated and humiliated, or they must be eliminated

I believe our differences are the little pinches of salt that can make the marriage seem more flavorful.

From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized.

American music comes from the same tree, but sometimes we get to these places in history where we forget where things come from, and they get compartmentalized.

From that moment on, no Christian can ever say one form of prayer is as good as another or one religion is as good as another.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out in the midst of people who have many differences but share this one thing in common. We are charged to live out a kind of alternative society before the eyes of the watching world, a world that is increasingly moving toward tribalism and division.