Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true.

In my cabinet at the present moment there sit side by side Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Jew.

There is No Hindu, There is No Muslim.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

I fully believe that our respective religious traditions - Islam and Catholicism - have the necessary resources to overcome past and present misunderstandings and to foster mutual friendship and understanding between our peoples. I am aware, as well, that collaboration does not imply giving up our distinct religious identities, but is rather a journey toward new discoveries, growth and self-respect.

Despite the ways in which it has been interpreted by [Islamic] militants and fundamentalists who refuse to recognize its historical and cultural context, there are few scriptures in the great religions of the world that can match the reverence with which the Quran speaks of other religious traditions

The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

Muslims are not our enemy.

To uphold religious tolerance, it is very wise that an adherent of a religion should not do something forbidden in another religion in front of the adherent of the latter.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

I feel all the religions should be able to co-exist if the various factions would be willing to respect and learn from each other's faiths.

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

If God wanted, he could have created all mankind as one religion. He created many different ways so we will cooperate.

There is no difference between Muslim life, Christian life or Jewish life.

I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed

Knowledge about religions is not only characteristic of an educated person, but is also absolutely necessary for understanding and living in a world of diversity.

It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith.

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding.

A Christian ought to have no part in interfaith movements.