Sydney J. Harris Quotes

I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed

I don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.

I feel all the religions should be able to co-exist if the various factions would be willing to respect and learn from each other's faiths.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

There will be no lasting peace on earth unless we learn not merely to tolerate but even to respect the other faiths as our own.

… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.

Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.

We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

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.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

We are not at war against Islam.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.