Quotes About Tolerance

Difficult as it may be for some people to imagine, God does not, we repeat here for emphasis, prefer Baptists over Hindus, Catholics over Jews, Muslims over Mormons, or any religion over any other religion. God does not even prefer those who believe in God over those who do not believe in God. These are not God's ideas. These are the ideas of human beings who think that these are God's ideas.

We are all One. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

Enlightenment begins with acceptance, without judgment of "what is.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.

there is great healing in acknowledging "mine is not a better way, mine is merely another way.

Or maybe arguing with people you disagree with takes less effort than exploring why they think differently from you.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love.

The secret to life is not to take it personally. The things people do and say are not always

Geniuses don't seem to have much tolerance for people who annoy them, or hinder them, and they tend to think they are not subject to the same rules of behavior as the mass of humanity. They are often unhappy and impatient people, and they can also be sociopaths, and sometimes psychopaths who

This guy I know went into a sex shop and asked the proprietor for a blow-up sex doll." "Is this a joke?" "So the proprietor asks, 'You want a Christian doll, a Jewish doll, or a Muslim doll?' And the guy says, 'What difference does it make?' And the proprietor says, 'Well, the Muslim dolls blow themselves up.

It was incongruous at Coombargana. In a great city such things happen now and then, where people are too strained and hurried to pay much attention to the griefs of others, but in a small rural community like ours, led by wise and tolerant people such as my father and mother, staffed by good types culled and weeded out over the years, such secret, catastrophic griefs do not occur. Troubles at Coombargana had always been small troubles in my lifetime.

My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to bother about any of that.

he will see a golden age where each person can hold and defend the opinions that he wishes.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

El amor es paciente, es bondadoso. El amor no es envidioso, ni jactancioso, ni orgulloso. No se comporta con rudeza, no es egoísta, no se enoja fácilmente, no guarda rencor. El amor no se deleita en la maldad, sino que se regocija con la verdad. Todo lo disculpa, todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta.

Hell, if they wanted to act like idiots, why try to stop them?

But for a while, it was surprisingly easy to overlook our obvious differences. And we did.

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.

If you disagree, you disagree. But you've got to move on.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.