My Lutheran Sunday School teacher was our next door neighbor growing up, so we knew her quite well in and out of church. When she came to our wedding [I received First Holy Communion on that same day too], along with our gift she gave us a handwritten quote (on a 3x5” index card) from St. Teresa of Avila. A swell and thoughtful gift from an incredible Christian.
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She was not evangelistic then I take it. :)
Here are others:
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.
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not.
It is suffering from tolerance.
Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos.
Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
"A Plea For Intolerance" (1931)
--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
http://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2001/lloyd-jones-on-romans-103/
Perhaps this will help explain the difference between nice Christians (those who do not evangelize like your Lutheran neighbor) and biblical born-again Christians (those that point out error and false doctrine and care for your soul more than they do your feelings).
God bless you, mlizzy!!