Quotes About Religious Differences

#1. The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion. - Author: Napoleon Hill

#2. Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one. - Author: Dalai Lama

#3. Sophia could just as well have gutted me. In Allah's name, I drank beer for you. I dismantled my entire value system of holding Allah's word above all for you. I reinterpreted my Islamic teachings to justify being with you. - Author: Sam Wazan

#4. I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work. - Author: Steven Levitan

#5. The trouble between Hindus and Muslims, which has continued to this day, is not generated by the people's inability to get along, but by those in positions of power and influence who seek to exploit religious differences for personal gain. - Author: Arun Gandhi

#6. Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation. - Author: Andrew Harvey

#7. am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences. - Author: Helen MacInnes

#8. We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. - Author: E. O. Wilson

#9. There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil. - Author: Adam Ferrara

#10. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. - Author: Theodore Roosevelt

#11. It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans. - Author: Laurence Sterne

#12. The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday. - Author: Fred Edwords

#13. You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. - Author: Ed Harris

#14. In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction. - Author: Octavia E. Butler

#15. No science is ever frightening to Christians. Religious people don't need the science to come out any particular way on IQ or AIDS or sex differences any more than they need the science to come out any particular way on evolution ... If evolution is true, then God created evolution. - Author: Ann Coulter

#16. In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences. - Author: F. Sionil Jose

#17. As interference of two beams of light can strengthen or weaken each other,
then so does religious differences can be truly productive or a total setback. - Author: Toba Beta

#18. People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practicing your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here. - Author: Pat Condell

#19. Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions. - Author: James Madison

#20. The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has been wrought by what should be a thing of beauty - religious passion? - Author: Steve Goodier

#21. The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life. - Author: Robert Kennedy

#22. Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time. - Author: Richard Land

#23. Seymour once said to me - in a crosstown bus, of all places - that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold. - Author: J.D. Salinger

#24. There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it. - Author: Reza Aslan

#25. You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people. - Author: Bill Maher

#26. The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#27. The respect + love for humanity that's why I travel.
We are all special and gifted beings, no matter our religious differences. The message should be peace,
love and prosperity. There should be no adversity but solidarity. - Author: Henry Johnson Jr

#28. Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence. - Author: Norman Lamm

#29. I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling. - Author: Ron Barrier

#30. Forget your religious superstitions built by cults and learn to love for the sake of humanity."-Stated after hearing a man use religion to justify and warrant hatred of people based on differences put forth by his spiritual beliefs. Oddly enough I happen to be very superstitious myself! - Author: Rickey Russell

#31. As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.' - Author: Parker Palmer

#32. The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference. - Author: Aldous Huxley

#33. I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference. - Author: Yair Lapid

#34. People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with their spiritual path. - Author: Brendan Myers

#35. Every living thing deserves to be respected, taken care of and loved. Religious differences are but a mere way of one's own choices. We breathe the same air, share the some food; cooking, it can be different. But fish is fish whether grilled, fried, or dropped in curry. - Author: Sulaiman Dawood

#36. I wanted to marry the first girl that I fell in love with, but there were religious differences.
I was an agnostic and she was a Polycarbonate - Author: Josh Stern

#37. We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them. - Author: Geraldine Ferraro

#38. In the Middle East, the weak perish quickly and autocratic rule seems to be the most effective governing system to combat extremism and overcome so many tribal, religious, linguistic, and ethnic differences. - Author: Zack Love

#39. Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War. - Author: Stephen V Monsma

#40. Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#41. Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts. - Author: Alcee Hastings