Rick Warren Quotes

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

The best religion is the most tolerant.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I'm pretty open to all walks of life.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

There should be a place and the space for all pop.

When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

Pluralism ... implies disagreement and dissension within the community.

Tolerance is as necessary in politics as it is in religion.

It is like a wide embrace, gathering together all those who have searched for words of hope. It accepts all great Prophets gone before, ’ it destroys no other creeds and leaves all doors open...