Brennan Manning Quotes

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

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

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

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

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

It's not my style to judge anybody.

We do not judge the people we love.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

I don't dislike anybody.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

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

I don't despise people.

Perhaps it is as well to keep an open and charitable mind, and to try to understand why people do things instead of condemning the acts themselves

The closer people are to the truth, the more tolerant they are of the mistakes of others.

If err we must, let us err on the side of tolerance.

Please be kind, don't be judgemental.

I cannot speak for Jesus, but I can quote his teachings, and he said, 'Love your neighbor as yourself'... How would he react to me playing Jesus? He wouldn't judge it. He wouldn't judge his own enemy... Playing this part highlights his teaching in a very nice way.

I'm not one who wants to hate on anybody.

People who are open-hearted and open-minded touch me deeply.