Quotes about Tolerance

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

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.

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.

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

When you judge another person you do not define them. You merely define yourself as someone who needs to judge.

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgement.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

I'd long since learned that no difference in viewpoint should ever be allowed to cause the least break in love. Indeed, it cannot, if it's real love. ...But relationships can be kept intact without compromising one's own beliefs. And if we do not keep them intact, but give up and allow the chasm, we're breaking the second greatest commandment.

All of which is only to explain how I came by a piece of equipment that most writers have to acquire one way or another: an unusual tolerance, even a preference, for instability. Not that they don't suffer from being unsure of next year's plans or this month's rent. They do. But, unlike many people, they can live with it.