Quotes about Intolerance

many pagans harbored ill feelings about Christians and widely believed them to be antisocial, contrary, incompliant, intolerant, narrow-minded, nonconformist, inflexible, obstinate, and uncompromising. That means if many Christians today feel like they take the brunt of hostility from an unbelieving world, they can rest assured that this has been felt by myriads of believers in times past.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

Jesus is gentle, but He is not weak. He loves the sinner but is absolutely intolerant of sin. He is not a negotiator. He is Lord. It is this bristling truth that invites intolerance toward Christians. Jesus did not say, Do your own thing... all roads lead to God. That would have made Jesus politically correct, but Jesus is not politically correct. He is Lord.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.