Drew Scott Quotes

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.

The difference of opinion in my community is a divine mercy.

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

As there are a very great variety of religious sects in the world, it is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbors respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.