Quotes about Tolerance

Genuine biblical Christianity does not impose itself on unwilling people at the point of a sword. If you choose to reject Jesus, you're perfectly free to do so.

There are only three ways to deal with non-Muslims under Islamic law: They must be converted, they must be subjugated and humiliated, or they must be eliminated

life is richer when it is shared even with those who annoy us from time to time.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different.

I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all.

we have developed a corollary that is neither love nor forgiveness—namely, tolerance. The problem with this is clear: I can "tolerate" you without it costing me anything very much. I can shrug my shoulders, walk away, and leave you to do your own thing. That, admittedly, is preferable to my taking you by the throat and shaking you until you agree with me. But it is certainly not love.

Like the Hindu in Belfast who was asked whether he was a Catholic Hindu or a Protestant Hindu, those of us who follow this fresh reading of the New Testament want to say to our critics right and left, 'Don't imagine that because we don't check all your fundamentalist boxes, we must be modernists, or that because we don't check all your modernist boxes, we must be fundamentalists.