Quotes about Inclusivity

It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside.

Perhaps well-meaning individuals temporarily forgot that we live in a nation where the majority does not impose its will on the minority simply because it can.

No matter who you are or what kind of baggage you carry with you, no matter what you look like or feel like, no matter what you do or don't do, God loves you just as you are right now. You don't have to get your act together, lose ten pounds, run a marathon, write a best-selling book, or raise perfect children. You are an extraordinary woman in His sight right now.

Have we harvested with the margins in mind? Do we intentionally serve people on the edge?

Pervasive gender exclusivity in the organic development of the church does not—indeed, it cannot—bear ripe fruit, because half of what is required for maturity is all but missing. It's tantamount to slicing the body of Christ at the waist and dividing it pound for pound. We could claim each half got their share, but the body would still be in pieces.

The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

I'm not for the left wing or the right wing--I'm for the whole bird.

Nowhere in Mark 16:15—"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" [KJV] — nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world.

Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; he belongs to the whole world.

The blood of Christ "purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation" (Revelation 5:9 NIV).