Quotes about Tolerance

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like the Pharisees set ourselves up to be better than other people.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

With Malice Towards None

Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.

We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.

Lovers may kill their own love story for no other reason than that they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the sheer risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.