Toleration Quotes - Page 4

• The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Religion

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• The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth?

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Pain, Cutting, Animal

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• We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

  Adam Weishaupt

  School, Mean, Winning

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• We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation.

  Peter Leithart

  Naked, Welcome, Transformation

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• Those who love others
  grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high
  toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high
  toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part
  of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where all
  growth, where all evolution, where all love must begin; with the person
  in the mirror.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Acceptance, Mirrors, Growth

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 08, 2014

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• Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

  Arthur Helps

  Real, Civilization, Tolerance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

  Albert Pike

  Men, May, Opinion

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• The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Liberty, Fundamentals

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Brotherhood, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerance, Different, Persons

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Giving, Tolerance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Tolerance, All Time

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerance, Strain, Withstanding

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• But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

  Martin Luther

  Names, Secret, Praying

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the Lord. Amazingly, there are no recorded cases of the holy man going up the mountain and finding that it's the others who are right. It always turns out that God wants unbelievers to suffer, and what could be more noble than to help him a little? When religion rules, toleration disappears, for you cannot cherish the verdict of death to the infidels, yet also tolerate those who disagree - for those are the very same infidels.

  Simon Blackburn

  Men, Suffering, Mountain

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• Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Tolerance, Movement

  Herbert Marcuse (2007). “The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.

  Alexander Haig

  Power, Fire, Doctrine

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• Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Peace, Spring, Real

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.77, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

  "Understanding the Religious Reich or The American and World-Wide Threat of Fundamentalism" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 2.6, www.neopagan.net. 1990.

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• It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

  George Washington

  Exercise, Rights, Class

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1792). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.93

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• Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

  Voltaire

  Men, Doctors, Order

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• That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.

  Peter McWilliams

  Christian, Religious, Freedom

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• There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Suicide, Religious, Law

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• Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Guilt, Atheism, Modesty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.12, Booklassic

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