Quote by Ernest Kurtz Download Open image ““The essence of tolerance lies in its openness to difference.”” — Ernest Kurtz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error … Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share
“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.” — Ray A. Davis Copy Share Image
“The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We chose too small a word in the decade of my birth—tolerance—to make the world we want to live in now. We opened to… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Tolerance, meanwhile, is about learning how to be patient. It’s about learning how to understand that people will not always be the best of… — E.M. Garver Copy Share Image
“To reach beyond tolerance is to open oneself to getting to know others, to appreciate their role in the world.” — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences; it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to appreciate it;… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth. — Walter Besant Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share
“The message of all spirituality is that, in some mysterious way, we are all one—that therefore the joy and the sorrow of any one… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expectations. Because… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Once we accept the common denominator of our own imperfection, once we begin to put into practice the belief that imperfection is the reality… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“We are all looking for, but we find what we are looking for only by being looked for. We find miracle only when we… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“For women and men, for alcoholics and non-alcoholics, spirituality is one of those realities that we have only so long as we seek it;… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“We modern people are problem-solvers, but the demand for answers crowds out patience—and perhaps, especially, patience with mystery, with that which we cannot control.” — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
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