Quotes about Inclusion

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

There are many heads lying in Christ's bosom, but there is room for yours among the rest.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership.

To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.

And I would just plead in passing—children, young people, and adults—see people with disabilities. And I don't mean see them like the priest and the Levite on the Jericho Road, passing by on the other side. This is our natural reflex—see and avoid. But we are not natural people. We are followers of Jesus. We have the Spirit of Jesus in our hearts. We have been seen and touched in all our brokenness by an attentive, merciful Savior.