Interfaith Religious Quotes

#1. I put people before gods. I respect believers of all kinds and work to promote interfaith dialogue, but my whole life I've seen religion used as a weapon, and I'm putting all weapons down.

Zak Ebrahim

#2. Abraham had eight sons
not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a good father who made sure all his sons were literate, of good character and shared a common ideology with their father, Abraham. Abraham did good. Where did we go wrong?
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#3. Some can be happy.

George Eliot

#4. Art has never been a popularity contest.

James Levine

#5. You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

William Sanderson

#6. Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

Spencer W. Kimball

#7. The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. I feel the responsibility to make things which on some level have something positive to say.

Judd Apatow

#9. He holds his hand out for me to see it like he's cradling something delicate or breakable, an egg or like, his heart.

Eda J. Vor

#10. People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

Cate Blanchett

#11. I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

Al Goldstein

#12. It can be helpful to think of humanity like a pearl necklace. Each human being is a pearl with distinct characteristics, but underneath there is a string that ties us all together, invisible to the naked eye.

Gudjon Bergmann

#13. Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

Srinivas Shenoy

#14. How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

Bill Holm

#15. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before - colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#16. During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Melissa Bean

#17. She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the starts made succulent and ripe after her time below.

Colson Whitehead

#18. Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#19. What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?

Jeffrey A. White

#20. More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

Pico Iyer