Quotes about Inclusion

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair

Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

if you were adopted, your parents chose you. Surprise pregnancies happen. But surprise adoptions? Never heard of one. Your parents could have picked a different gender, color, or ancestry. But they selected you. They wanted you in their family.

Do not fear, from now on you will be catching men" (v. 10). Contrary to what you may have been told, Jesus doesn't limit his recruiting to the stout-hearted. The beat up and worn out are prime prospects in his book, and he's been known to climb into boats, bars, and brothels to tell them, "It's not too late to start over.

Come, live in me!" Jesus invites. "Make my home your home." Odds are that you know what it means to be at home somewhere. To be at home is to feel safe. The residence is a place of refuge and security. To be at home is to be comfortable. You can pad around wearing slippers and a robe. To be at home is to be familiar. When you enter the door, you needn't consult the blueprint to find the kitchen.

To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

God reserves the right to say what gets to enter the gates and what does not. Revelation 21 concludes with these words: "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.