Thomas Merton Quotes

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

A true man hates no one.

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

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

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

I hate nobody.