Quotes About Valuing Differences

#1. This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Mort Sahl

#2. Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#3. Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

Jean Vanier

#4. Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Paul Tsongas

#5. Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

Bruce Feiler

#6. Jesus did not die for our righteousness, but He died for our sins. He did not come to save us because we were worth the saving, but because we were utterly worthless, ruined, and undone.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. A leaky faucet, a barking dog-those are things you tolerate.

Candace Gingrich-Jones

#8. I can barely read my hand written notes, typed.

J.R. Rim

#9. A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

Woody Allen

#10. A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Don DeLillo

#11. While carrying responsibilities, never forget to smile.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#12. As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.

Zach Condon

#13. Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

John Ortberg

#14. The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences.

Parker J. Palmer

#15. We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

Rachel Holmes

#16. The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

Rajneesh