Michael Muhammad Knight Quotes

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The black church will accept anybody.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

I'm of the mindset that God loves everyone.

Anyone who has not accepted Jesus, I want to be your brothers and sisters, too.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .

My religion has no geographical limits.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

Now, I believe that one of the reasons that Jesus was accused of being a homosexual is because he spent time with homosexuals. I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

"The way of Cain" says there are many paths that lead to God rather than one path.

We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.