Quotes About Tolerance

language was a convenience of the heart, not something to bludgeon people with.

Peoples is peoples. -Pete-

he reminds us of Christ. When he asks, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"9 he reminds us of Christ.

Those Christians who resist the inclination toward fundamentalism and who follow the nature, actions, and words of Jesus Christ should consider people who are different from us to be worthy of our care, generosity, forgiveness, compassion, and unselfish love.

Quem muito se evita, se convive

Kids that age are very accepting. If we could just get them to keep that attitude, it might be a kinder world.

I don't believe God really cares what you eat, or what you wear, or whom you love. I think that if God made the stars, He must have a greater perspective.

You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. —NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.

I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

I still have to work on patience.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

The most difficult thing to do in life is to love the unlovable.

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Its not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in her shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.