Interfaith Quotes
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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, prayer, sacrifice, and an intense inner life.
~ Mother Teresa
* We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
"We have to sit down, have a meal together, pray together and then actually talk together. Then we realize that, yes, although we have some differences they are not impassable differences."
-- Pauline Tangiora
If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet—and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually—then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together."
~ Brother Wayne Teasdale"So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.
~ Brother Wayne Teasdale
"I honor the path each person is on. I believe that all of our prayer paths lead to the Great Mystery, or Spirit, or God."
-- Mary Thunder
Certainly the vision of the spiritual nature of man and the universe brings the conviction that the human potential is unlimited and that we stand at the threshold over which a quantum leap in consciousness is possible.
~ George Trevelyan
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
-- Desmond Tutu
We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically, and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles.
-- Betty Williams (The Peace People)
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
-- Rowan D. Williams
The spiritual path -- is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
-- Marianne WilliamsonLove is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
-- Marianne Williamson
We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.
-- Jim Wallis
There is only one river. There is only one sea.
And it flows through you, and it flows through me.
There is only one people. We are one and the same.
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.
-- Peter Yarrow
-- Peter YarrowInterfaith Quotes
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INTERFAITH
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Dalai Lama | Mahatma Gandhi | Thich Nhat Hanh
Julia Butterfly Hill | Aldous Huxley | Michael Lerner
Queen Noor | Peace Pilgrim | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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