Fulton J. Sheen Quotes About Tolerance

Quotes about: Tolerance

• America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Country, America, Errors

  "A Plea For Intolerance". Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.

• Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Views, Practice

• Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Hatred, Tolerance

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.502, Image

• There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Confused, Average, Tolerance

• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Punishment, Errors

• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Punishment, Evil

  "A Plea For Intolerance". Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.

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