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"America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded...
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil ... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons ... never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error ... Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all stability.
In the face of this broadmindedness, what the world needs is intolerance." - Bishop Fulton Sheen 1931

5 posted on 08/11/2006 8:08:17 PM PDT by murphE (These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)

Wonderful quote by Bishop Sheen. 1931, and timeless.

8 posted on 08/11/2006 9:00:01 PM PDT by vox_freedom (Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)

That's a great quote. I'm always fascinated by how little human nature changes over time, even thousands of years.

19 posted on 08/11/2006 11:48:30 PM PDT by Left2Right ("Democracy isn't perfect, but other governments are so much worse")

23 posted on 08/29/2006 6:15:11 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))

Tolerance applies only to persons ... never to truth.

You know the tolerance mantra is on shaky ground when the left is intolerant of the intolerant.

During the entire Anita Bryant thing my father used to ask, "I don't know why someone's right to be homosexual is more sacred than my right to be a bigot."

Of course, my father was not a bigot, but his point was valid.

Shalom.

25 posted on 08/29/2006 6:17:31 PM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)

"America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded... Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil ... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons ... never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error ... Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all stability. In the face of this broadmindedness, what the world needs is intolerance." - Bishop Fulton Sheen 1931

31 posted on 08/30/2006 4:48:05 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Mid East Ceasefire = Israel ceases but her enemies fire)

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