Quotes about Tolerance

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Tolerance like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.

An "open mind" can be an "empty head," and "tolerance" can be indistinguishable from believing nothing. These are no help in finding honest answers to honest and important questions.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.

Jesus' instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don't." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized.

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong. That is never God's view.

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong. That is never God's view. There is only one true liberty—the liberty of Jesus at work in our conscience enabling us to do what is right. Don't get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you—with patience and with gentleness.

You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.