Will Rogers Quotes

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

I lead a multi-faith life.

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

… 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.

When national leaders address the people of Fiji in specifically Christian terms, whatever the occasion, nearly half of our people are excluded. When prayer in mixed company is uttered in terms of a purely Christian God, we unintentionally omit and diminish others present of different faiths.

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?

You cannot insult the faith of others.

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

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

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

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

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.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

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

Knowledge about religions is not only characteristic of an educated person, but is also absolutely necessary for understanding and living in a world of diversity.

In my cabinet at the present moment there sit side by side Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Jew.

The freedom allowed in the United States to all sorts of inquiry and discussion necessarily leads to a diversity of opinion, which is seen not only in their being different denominations, but different opinions also in the same denomination.