Ramakrishna Quotes

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

I lead a multi-faith life.

I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith...So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

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

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

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

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

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.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

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

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

Knowledge about religions is not only characteristic of an educated person, but is also absolutely necessary for understanding and living in a world of diversity.

Let there be no two religions in Arabia.

… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.

There is No Hindu, There is No Muslim.

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.