Quotes About Tolerance

benign masochism refers to the choice to pursue activities that are normally painful or unpleasant but not harmful.

Stephen Prothero's God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World speaks directly to this issue. A professor at Boston University, Prothero observes that the claim that all religions are fundamentally the same is an insult to all religions, because they have different benchmarks and different goals and different frameworks and different worldviews.

Resentment is trying to change something that is just what it is. When we can't change it, we resent it.

Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.

When you start thinking like Christ, you are guaranteed to sometimes make choices that offend and anger other people.

Being willing to tolerate things that are wrong in the eyes of God may create a comfortable surface peace, but it isn't what love does. Being

I don't have any ill will toward anybody, except for maybe the people...yeah, the people.

any Christian theologian who proposes a theology of religions but who doesn't know much about any other religion than her/his own should be regarded as highly suspicious, if not dangerous.

Hans Küng's sobering words: "No peace among nations without peace among religions. And no peace among religions without a greater dialogue among them.

And yet, and yet, if my belief in Jesus as the only Son of God requires me, explicitly or implicitly, to denigrate or subordinate other religious figures and religions, then such a belief becomes a clot in the free and life-giving flow of my faith's circulatory system. I'm sorry. It just does.

Nikdy nep?erušuj nep?ítele, když se dopouští omylu.

I am convinced that an intolerant monotheism is a greater danger in today's world than a tolerant polytheism.

We try to live and let live, but underneath it, we're left with a smug sense of superiority about ourselves and vague disgust for others who don't measure up.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences a country that respects all, regardless of their differences a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

Whoever dismisses bigotry or underestimates its impact has never lived under the pain.

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

Still, we may hesitate to accept an unpleasant reality because we feel that by accepting, we condone something that is intolerable. But this is not the case. As it says so eloquently in One Day at a Time in Al-Anon (ODAT), Acceptance does not mean submission to a degrading situation.

Sometimes you've just got to let them scream, right?

The philosopher has a duty,... in reading scientific texts, to combine semantic tolerance with semantic criticism—to accept in practice what he denounces as a matter of principle, namely, the confusions that result from illegitimately converting correlations into identifications.

The best football player in America could not serve as captain of his team. But Paul expressed neither surprise nor anger: by now he knew this was the way the white world operated, and he was able to shrug it off.

Gin was smart enough to know if she had limited the party to just her girlfriends, it would be a very small one: namely her and Sandy. It's not that the girls at school didn't like Gin. It was more like they tolerated her. Not that Gin wasted any energy trying to be friends.