Quotes about Open-mindedness

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Those Christians who resist the inclination toward fundamentalism and who follow the nature, actions, and words of Jesus Christ should consider people who are different from us to be worthy of our care, generosity, forgiveness, compassion, and unselfish love.

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

I've yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.

As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.

It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

For us to close our mind to scientific reasoning without using our best critical thinking is to refuse to use our God-given capacity for understanding.

I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.

The best ideas are common property.