A
life is either all spiritual or not spiritual
at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life
is shaped by the end you live for. You are made
in the image of what you desire.
-- Thomas Merton
*
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen
awareness of the interdependence of all these
living beings, which are all part of one another,
and all involved in one another.
--
Thomas Merton
*
One world, one people, living together as a global
family! Young people will cross religious, ethnic
and cultural divides to recognize the universal
human as family. WE ARE ONE and the elders of
tomorrow will carry this torch.
-- Nina Meyerhof
*
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing
sustaining and powerful movement whose interest
is to prove that religion has a healing side as
well as a killing side, and that democracy is
the consequence of conscience
-- Bill Moyers
*
The world’s major religions in the end all want
the same thing, even though they were born in
different places and circumstances on this planet.
What the world needs today is a convergence
of the different religions in the search for
and definition of the cosmic or divine laws
which ought to regulate our behavior on this
planet.
--
Robert Muller
*
"As
believers we all have an opportunity and moral
obligation to recognize our spiritual common
ground; to rise above our differences; to combat
prejudice and intolerance."
-- Queen Noor of
Jordan
*
"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 neighbours respecting
their religious opinions, and not presumptuously
suppose that theirs alone are right.
-- Robert Owen
*
Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion.
Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship
of the environment. Show me a religion that
doesn't care about hospitality.
-- Eboo Patel
*
"Be
a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead
of a discordant note. The medicine this sick
world needs is love. Hatred must be replaced
by love, and fear by faith that love will prevail."
-- Peace
Pilgrim
*
The
basis of world peace is the teaching which runs
through almost all the great religions of the
world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
*
The
basis of world peace is the teaching which runs
through almost all the great religions of the
world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
Science
is not only compatible with spirituality; it is
a profound source of spirituality. -- Carl Sagan
What
interfaith seeks to do is to not allow religion to
fall back into confrontational modes, into contemporary
crusades and jihads, rather to move onwards to a new
level of interfaith harmony and understanding."
-- Dr. Karen Singh
*
"I would like the church to be a place where
the questions of people are honored rather than
a place where we have all the answers. The church
has to get out of propaganda. The future will
involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ...
We cannot say we have the only truth."
-- Bishop John
Shelby Spong
''We're
talking about calling the entire world of religion
into a global dialogue,''
-- Bishop William E. Swing
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