#tolerance

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting. ↗

— Stephen R. Prothero

#respect

For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#respect #tolerance #respect

One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#teacher

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#i #intolerance #seen #shown #support

If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard. ↗

— Arthur Japin

#tolerance #equality

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#tolerance #faith

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#faith

People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you. ↗

— Erica O'Rourke

#tolerance #forgiveness

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage. ↗

— Aberjhani

#forgiveness #intolerance #national-poetry-month #peace #popular-quotes

Ah, well..." I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd said I couldn't, or shouldn't, judge her. It was my not forgiving her that irked him-it was my intolerance of her intolerance that bugged him. ↗

— John Irving

#forgiveness