Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

I respect every religion.

I cannot discriminate on the basis of Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian.

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

I love diversity.

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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

The one peace possible: A homeland for everybody.

When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.