Quotes about Tolerance And Compassion
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
— Amos Oz
By failing to let others be themselves before God and move at their own pace, we inevitably project onto them our own discomfort with their choice to live life differently than we do.
— Peter Scazzero
To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.
— Joel Osteen
We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
— Mother Teresa
A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
— Proverbs 19:11
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.
— Philip Yancey
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
— Thomas a Kempis
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never use the message of the cross to crucify those you don't like, or the sword of the Spirit to attack other believers.
— Perry Stone