Religious Openness Quotes

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God

I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

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.

It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

He that is willing to tolerate any Religion, or discrepant way of Religion, besides his own, unless it be in matters meerly indifferent, either doubts of his own, or is not sincere in it.

The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.