A Quote by J. H. Oldham

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich. — © J. H. Oldham
Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

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J. H. Oldham
1874 - 1969
Differences don’t just threaten and divide us. They also inform, enrich, and enliven us.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.
For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.
It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.
We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.
We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.
Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.
Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.
I think my differences were, and my differences still are, that I don't really approach fashion in a fashiony way.
God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.
We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.
We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.
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