Pope John Paul II Quotes

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

Muslims and Christians are brothers.

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That's the One we believe in, the One Who created universe - the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

Let there be no two religions in Arabia.

The role of the Church of England … has always been to hold in trust for the nation the Christian faith, and values which in the past created the nation and to try to […] act as an interpreter and bridge between many different people looking for a faith and spirituality and not doing that exclusively. We do it these days in partnership with other churches, but the Church of England has always had a particular responsibility for this role.

O people of the Book; Come, let us join together on the "word" (Unity of God), that is common to us all

There is No Hindu, There is No Muslim.

Today we must secure not a clash between civilizations, but a reconciliation and bringing together of the values of Islam and Christianity.

I'm so happy I married a fellow Catholic because I think that marriage is tough enough - that's one area that's just not something we argue about. There's no contention about it because we're both on the same page.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

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.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

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!

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

There's truth in every religion. Christians believe that there's truth in every religion. But we just believe that there's one savior. We believe we can learn truth - I've learned a lot of truth from different religions. Because they all have a portion of the truth. I just believe there is one savior, Jesus Christ.

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.

I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.