Quotes about Tolerance

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Have we forgotten that what we tolerate, we empower? Silence is communication! Silence communicates agreement and grants permission. We enable deception when we refuse to confront the lies. Silence is not an option!

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!

Now, don't be looking I-told-you-so, Matthew. That's bad enough in a woman, but it isn't to be endured in a man.