Quotes about Variety

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Out of one man a race of men innumerable.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

I genuinely think there's a workout for everyone. Sometimes you have to think outside the box.

The church God wants is one brimming with difference,

Since—and this is why it changed how I read the Bible—God chose to communicate in language, since language is always shaped by context, and since God chose to speak to us over time through many writers, God also chose to speak to us in a variety of ways and expressions. Furthermore, I believe that because the gospel story is so deep and wide, God needed a variety of expressions to give us a fuller picture of the Story.

In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought there were so many in the whole country as were brought together by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they were — straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

Prop. II. There are many mansions in the house of God. By many mansions is meant many seats or places of abode.