Quotes about Diversity

Up to now, we have not been carrying history too well, because "there stood among us one we did not recognize," "one who came after me, because he existed before me" (John 1:26, 30). He came in mid-tone skin, from the underclass, a male body with a female soul, from an often hated religion, and living on the very cusp between East and West. No one owns him, and no one ever will.

Life moves first toward diversity and then toward union of that very diversity at ever higher levels. It is the old philosophical problem of "the one and the many

Up to now we have been more in love with elitism than with any egalitarianism; we liked being the "one," but just did not know how to include the many in that very One.

gay marriage as the ultimate threat to society

A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

Gary wondered, 'If God intentionally made us all different, why should everyone be expected to love God in the same way?

God expects unity, not uniformity, and we can walk arm-in-arm without seeing eye-to-eye on every issue.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.