Gerry Spence Quotes

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it.

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.

Toleration is the best religion.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god.

… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

When national leaders address the people of Fiji in specifically Christian terms, whatever the occasion, nearly half of our people are excluded. When prayer in mixed company is uttered in terms of a purely Christian God, we unintentionally omit and diminish others present of different faiths.

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.

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

I respect every religion.

Within the Green Party, we have candidates from every faith and religion and a lot who don't believe there is a God and wonder why anyone would be so foolish as to think so. And everyone is respected and welcome.