Quotes about Tolerance

Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness — sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.

We must remember that it was God who chose to give us different personalities, backgrounds, races, and preferences, so we should value and enjoy those differences, not merely tolerate them. God wants unity, not uniformity. But for unity's sake we must never let differences divide us. We must stay focused on what matters most — learning to love each other as Christ has loved us

As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.