Ravi Zacharias Quotes

It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

Our view is that there is truth and holiness in other religious faiths. Our view is that there are many paths to God

every human being is free to embrace and profess that religion which, led by the light of reason he/she believes to be true…. in our time it is no longer convenient to have the Catholic religion as the only religion to the exclusion of any other religion.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

At the universities I visit, the exclusivity of Christ is challenged in every open forum - "How can you possibly talk about one God or one way when there are so many good options?"

I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.

I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.

We must continue to show tolerance for those whose opinions and sincerely held beliefs differ from our own. We must lead by example, finding a way to respect one another and to celebrate a culture that protects religious freedom while promoting equality under the law.

Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.