Quotes About Interfaith

As forces of hate in this country and worldwide try to pull Muslims and Christians apart, we are in desperate need of a unifying force that can bridge the widening gap of interfaith misunderstanding and mistrust. That force could be the message of love, peace, and forgiveness taught by Jesus and accepted by followers of both faiths.

A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

Of all people, we Christians should be building friendships and protecting the dignity of human beings, even those of other faiths. I loved seeing Christians in Iraq stand guard as peacekeepers outside the mosques while Muslims gathered for prayer, and Muslims doing the same for Christians.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

While I do not believe we are not witnessing a clash of civilizations between Christianity and Islam, it is a fantasy to imagine that the world's two largest religions are in any meaningful sense the same, or that interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims will magically bridge the gap.

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I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.

Being raised by a Catholic father, a Protestant mother, and marrying the Muslim father of my three children, I encourage people to respect and at least try to understand different religions.

I study the Koran intensively, but I also study other religions, too. But it is in the Koran that the prophets are closest to me - there and in the mosque when I go to pray.

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

Although, conscious of the similarities they shared with Zen, Jesuits in Japan stressed the differences.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Some Christian leaders . . . are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.

Many Christian leaders are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

If my dying relative or friend is a practicing Christian and I am a Buddhist, is there any conflict?" How could there be? I tell them: You are invoking the truth, and Christ and Buddha are both compassionate manifestations of truth, appearing in different ways to help beings.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.