Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.

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.

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

I’m trying to be a real Muslim, who respects others and respects the freedom of the people to choose their own religious denominations or even to not believe in God in the first place.

I respect every religion.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.

My brother and I have converted to Christianity, and my other brother and sister are still Sikh. So for me, it's not something that I ever want to be judgmental on. I know my parents are two people of a very strong faith. I respect all that they've done in raising their four kids and in the opportunities that they've given us.

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

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

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

I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

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

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another only to scoff, I conclude, in accordance with what has gone before, that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits; each would then obey God freely with his whole heart, while nothing would be publicly honoured save justice and charity.

There will be no lasting peace on earth unless we learn not merely to tolerate but even to respect the other faiths as our own.

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god.

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.

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 have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own 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.

Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play cricket. There can be a lot of negativity and misunderstanding of Islam.

I understand that not everyone shares my faith and some find it difficult to reconcile with their own beliefs.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.