Conor Cruise O'Brien Quotes

I hope the day that all the Christians are one. This is my dream.

It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

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the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date.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.

Let us get rid of these devilish words, these names of party, of faction, of sedition—Lutheran, Huguenot, Papist—let us keep unadulterated the name of Christian.

Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.

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

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realized they can't get away with it.

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

Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

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

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.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

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

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

There is no one true church.

Islam proved imperfect national cement, as many different varieties of Islam competed for the allegiance of Pakistanis.

Let there be no two religions in Arabia.