Quotes About Diversity

How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can hope for from The Way of Christ is the level of Christianity visible in Europe and America today

Similarly, unless we suffer from a remarkably restricted range of acquaintances, we all know that there are people who please God and have his blessing without being poor, hungry, grief-stricken, or persecuted. They

In fact, however, no known religions are the same; they teach and practice radically different things. You only have to look at them to see that. To say they are all the "same" is to disrespect them. It is a way of claiming that none really matter, that their distinctives are of no human significance.

Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method.

no known religions are the same; they teach and practice radically different things. You only have to look at them to see that. To say they are all the "same" is to disrespect them. It is a way of claiming that none really matter, that their distinctives are of no human significance.

Our aim here is not to prove that Jesus is superior to other spiritual masters and traditions. But he really is different, and we should acknowledge it.

A human figure approaching, filling itself in slowly, putting on age and sex and race, like items of clothing, till she's looking at a black boy, also thirteen years old, wearing ragged shorts and T-shirt, broken takkies on his feet.

You can't have the freedom to believe if you do not have the freedom not to believe.

Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

There is your truth and there is my truth...as for the universal truth it does not exist.

Technically, everyone is talking to me. I'm able to partition myself quite easily. You are hearing my default voice—the voice that Edmond prefers—but others are hearing other voices or languages. Based on your profile as an American academic male, I chose my default male British accent for you. I predicted that it would breed more confidence than, for example, a young female with a southern drawl.'' Did this thing just call me a chauvinist?

Langdon glanced over at Brüder and Sinskey, who had been staring upward and who now lowered their eyes to earth. "Jesus," Brüder said. "Yes!" Mirsat said excitedly. "And Allah and Muhammad, too!

William Blake himself had written a similarly themed work titled All Religions Are One.

No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice.

found it deeply disturbing when a recent poll revealed that one half of my countrymen believe quite literally that Adam and Eve existed—that an all-powerful God created two fully formed human beings who single-handedly populated the entire planet, generating all the diverse races, with none of the inherent problems of inbreeding.

the devout can always benefit from listening to nonbelievers. It is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of God.

ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION

La religión es como un idioma o un vestido. Gravitamos alrededor de las prácticas en las que hemos sido educados. Al final, sin embargo, todos proclamamos lo mismo; que la vida tiene sentido, que nos sentimos agradecidos por el poder que nos ha creado.

La fe es universal. Son nuestros métodos específicos para comprenderla los que son arbitrarios. Hay personas que rezan a Jesús, otras que van a La Meca, y las hay que estudian partículas subatómicas. Sin embargo, al final lo que hacemos todos es buscar la verdad, aquello que es más grande que todos nosotros.

El bien puede adoptar muchas formas".

Christians like faces; Muslims like words.