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Quotes About Tolerance

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God
~ Brigit of Kildare
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
~ Mark Twain
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
~ Voltaire
Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.
~ Joyce Meyer
God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
~ Vance Havner
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
~ Simon Raven
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
~ Erich Fromm
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.
~ Swami Vivekananda
...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
~ Meher Baba
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
~ Desmond Tutu
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
~ Isaac Asimov
The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.
~ John Shelby Spong
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
~ Vance Havner
If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?
~ Mother Teresa
God doesn't make you a bigot. You're just a bigot.
~ Reza Aslan
The quality of mercy is not strained
~ William Shakespeare
God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.
~ Ramakrishna
The Poles do not know how to hate, thank God.
~ Stefan Wyszynski
If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.
~ Bill Hicks
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.
~ Tom T. Hall
There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.
~ Sophia Bush
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
~ Francois Fenelon