Interreligious Understanding Quotes

Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.

It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

Dalai Lama is very interested in learning from and sharing tips with people in other traditions, but he always stresses that we shouldn't underestimate the important differences between them.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

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.

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

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.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

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 see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level.

When a person thinks, I am a Christian, this other person is a Muslim, therefore he is my enemy, or I am a Muslim, this other person is a Hindu, therefore she is my enemy, they reveal their own lack of spiritual depth. No religion teaches this, and any understanding of any religion that adopts this divisive attitude proves itself false by doing so.

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.

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

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.