Source: The Kite Runner
“I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all”
Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor
Twitter response to anti-gay religious group Westboro Baptist Church picketing a One Direction concert (19 July 2013) https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/westboro-baptist-church-one-direction_n_3634663 <br class="br">Context: Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though.
“If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.”
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
The Weight of Glory (1949)
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) American christian musician
Wheaton, Illinois http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/wheaton-illinois-sep1590-backup-copy.html (September 15, 1990) <br class="br">In Concert
“God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 56
Larry Bird (1956) basketball player and coach
Donnie Walsh — reported in Sam Smith (February 8, 2004) "Bird sets fast pace - Hall of Fame player and former coach Larry Bird finds 'every day's exciting' in his first go-around as general manager of the Indiana Pacers", Chicago Tribune, p. 11.
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Clive Staples Lewis book Mere Christianity
Book II, Chapter 5, "The Practical Conclusion"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)
Clifford D. Simak Highway of Eternity
Highway of Eternity (1986)
Context: He stirred again, halfway between sleep and wakefulness, and he was not alone. Across the fire from him sat, or seemed to sit, a man wrapped in some all-enveloping covering that might have been a cloak, wearing on his head a conical hat that dropped down so far it hid his face. Beside him sat the wolf — the wolf, for Boone was certain that it was the same wolf with which he'd found himself sitting nose to nose when he had wakened the night before. The wolf was smiling at him, and he had never known that a wolf could smile.
He stared at the hat. Who are you? What is this about?
He spoke in his mind, talking to himself, not really to the hat. He had not spoken aloud for fear of startling the wolf.
The Hat replied. It is about the brotherhood of life. Who I am is of no consequence. I am only here to act as an interpreter.
An interpreter for whom?
For the wolf and you.
But the wolf does not talk.
No, he does not talk. But he thinks. He is greatly pleased and puzzled.
Puzzled I can understand. But pleased?
He feels a sameness with you. He senses something in you that reminds him of himself. He puzzles what you are.
In time to come, said Boone, he will be one with us. He will become a dog.
If he knew that, said The Hat, it would not impress him. He thinks now to be one with you. An equal. A dog is not your equal...
