Billy Graham Quotes

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

To be social is to be forgiving.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.