George Carey Quotes

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

… very dangerous … because its aim is to introduce a mingling of Protestants and Catholics

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.

I'm open to all religions. Respecting Scientology is just like respecting any other religious view.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

A Christian ought to have no part in interfaith movements.

King of Two Religions

In the Moslem East all Christian interests are inseparable. The misfortune of one does not make for the good fortune of the rest.

Catholics and Protestants remained faithful to their religions, but stopped thinking of them in zero-sum terms and gradually embraced the separation between church and state.

My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions.

I don't know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.

I'm a Christian, but I've coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions.

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

I believe that this is the land of religious freedom and that that applies to Muslims. And if I have to make it apply to Muslims with the work that I do, I'm going to do that.

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.