Quotes about Tolerance
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.
- Miroslav Volf
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
- Ravi Zacharias
Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.
- Jan Hus
Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.
- Randy Alcorn
Hatred can be overcome only by love.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.
- Richard Wurmbrand
Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
- Anne Lamott
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.