Quotes About Tolerance

There is a continuing decision to be made as to whether to evade pain, or to tolerate it and therefore modify

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.

I can't exactly say why I've chosen to write about the things that I am writing about. There are doubtless better stories from my life that I am missing, events and escapades I am not wise enough to know were important. If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars that they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead. p 179

Don't judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan

People often feel threatened by things that are different. It reflects their ignorance, not your reality.

Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]

This world shall not be at peace, unless we eradicate jealous first.

Less and less we were freaks. More and more we were curiosities.

And no kinds of love are better than others. Some Kinda Love

Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone. —ROMANS 12:18 NLT

the reason God tells us not to judge is that we do not know the raw material that other people are struggling with.

Rather than actively love our neighbor, we unselfishly allow him to live whatever way he wants to, even if his life choices are self-destructive.  Had Lewis lived today, I think he would have said that the reigning virtue is not unselfishness but tolerance—a pseudo-virtue that also manifests itself, not in active charity, but in a negative acquiescence to the "rights" of others.

Mi?o?? nie zna granic, Holling. Kosi wszystko: wiek, kolor skóry, religi?, p?e?.

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

One of the most important parts of education is learning to get along with other people.

If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.

If I want to be accepted as I am, then I need to be willing to accept others as they are.

NECK: I am flexible. I welcome other viewpoints.

With inner peace, there would be no wars, no gangs, no terrorists, and no homeless.

The neck represents the ability to be flexible in our thinking, to see the other side of a question, and to see another person's viewpoint. When there are problems with the neck, it usually means we are being stubborn about our own concept of a situation.

KNEE: Forgiveness, tolerance, compassion. I move forward without hesitation.