Michael Dyson Quotes

Muslims and Christians are brothers.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

The budding of ecumenical fraternity has always been a most fragile growth.

If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film's premise is in line with my beliefs.

Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a commitment to peace and nonviolence, and care for women and widows and orphans. What has destroyed a coming together is men's interpretation of religion.

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

I then greet and cordially thank you all, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions; first of all the Muslims, who worship the one God, living and merciful, and call upon Him in prayer, and all of you. I really appreciate your presence: in it I see a tangible sign of the will to grow in mutual esteem and cooperation for the common good of humanity.

I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.

Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.

I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other

There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.

Sufis were always spreading love with their music, and if some kind of extremism is a threat to it, it is a threat to all humanity.

The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

India's history and destiny, India's legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.

I am a believer of all religions. I will happily visit a temple, mosque, church. I do not differentiate between religions.

The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance.

Muslims are not our enemy.

I respect and believe in all religions.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qur’an will become books supporting one another being read everywhere, and respected by every nation … [I am] looking forward to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible.

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

People need to learn how to respond to each other's hatreds with love - which is what Jesus taught us, which is what Buddha came here to teach us, which is what Muhammad taught us, which is what all of the great spiritual masters who have ever walked among us who live at those highest energies taught us - responding to force with more force will just create more problems.