Keith Ellison Quotes

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.

Religion should be a bridge to unite us and not a wedge to divide us politically.

There is No Hindu, There is No Muslim.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

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

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.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

No Muslim should intrude into the faith of other Muslims, and no person should oppose the beliefs of his friends…. God says, "O believers! you are accountable for none but yourselves; he that goes astray cannot harm you if you are on the right path…”

The Catholic and Protestant, the Calvinist and the Arminian, the Jew and the Infidel, may sit down at the common table of the national councils, without any inquisition into their faith, or mode of worship.

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.

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

A brother is dear whatever his faith.

You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.

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 like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

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.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

We are not at war against Islam.

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

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

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

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