Walter Savage Landor Quotes

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

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other.

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?

If God wanted, he could have created all mankind as one religion. He created many different ways so we will cooperate.

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.

Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which pervades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there can not be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.

… 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.

As there are a very great variety of religious sects in the world, it is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbors respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

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

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

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.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

I lead a multi-faith life.

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa or Europe. They may be Mohammetans [Moslems] Jews or Christians or any Sect–or they may be Atheists.

The reason religion has thrived in America is because we have a free market in religion. I am opposed to theocracy.

Let there be no two religions in Arabia.