Interfaith Dialogue
So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu… But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
If the World’s Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character.
Swami Vivekananda
So long as human beings fundamental nature, aspiring for happiness and wishing to overcome suffering, remains unchanged, these basic values will remain relevant to us, both as individual human beings and as a society.
The Dalai Lama
I sum up the Jewish imperative, very simply―and it has been like this since the days of Abraham: to be true to your faith is a blessing to others regardless of their faith.
Jonathan Sacks
It is my deep-rootedness in Christian faith that enables me to be inclusive. And this is not exclusivity: it is a partial closing, which is necessary in order to be fully open.
Paulos Mar Gregorios
God is to be heard, not only on Sinai, not only in my own heart, but in the voice of the stranger… We must, then, see the truth in the stranger, and the truth we see must be a newly living truth…
Thomas Merton
If we are to be true to these religions [the wisdom traditions], we must attend to others as deeply and as alertly as we hope that they will attend to us…
Huston Smith
The truly human is always experienced in vulnerability, in mutuality, in reciprocity… Vulnerability transforms you.
Richard Rohr
We need the courage as well as the inclination to consult, and profit from, the ‘wisdom traditions of mankind.’
E. F. Schumacher
The human opportunity, the religions tell us, is to transform our flashes of insight into abiding light.
Huston Smith
Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi have done more for humanity than science has done.
Albert Einstein