Thomas Keating Quotes

Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Most of the conflict in the world today has religious causes so religious leaders can be instrumental in bringing peace.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.

The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

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.

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

I consider peace between world religions as a prerequisite for peace among the nations

Like all peoples, Russian millions share our longing for a friendly and peaceful world.

I think Christians and Muslims should hug each other.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

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 is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic or religious, in order to live in harmony with their brothers and sisters. If we are honest in presenting our convictions, we will be able to see more clearly what we hold in common.

In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental. It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God, ... But the converse is also true: it is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people. Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam.

There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.