Quotes About Tolerance

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is?

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?