Quotes about Respect

Without an evolutionary worldview, Christianity does not really understand, much less foster, growth or change. Nor does it know how to respect and support where history is heading.

depiction of God in The Trinity seriously, we have to say, "In the beginning was the Relationship." This icon yields more fruits the more you gaze on it. Every part of it was obviously meditated on with great care: the gaze between the Three; the deep respect between them as they all share from a common bowl. And note the hand of the Spirit pointing toward the open and fourth place at the table! Is the Holy Spirit inviting, offering, and clearing space? If so, for what?

If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of biblical fellowship: We will share our true feelings (authenticity), forgive each other (mercy), speak the truth in love (honesty), admit our weaknesses (humility), respect our differences (courtesy), not gossip (confidentiality), and make group a priority (frequency).

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.

Courtesy is respecting our differences, being considerate of each other's feelings, and being patient with people who irritate us.

You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.

God expects unity, not uniformity, and we can walk arm-in-arm without seeing eye-to-eye on every issue.

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.