| A life is either
all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life
is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
-- Thomas Merton The
whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of
all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in
one another. --
Thomas Merton |
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 | The
Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement
whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing
side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience -- Bill
Moyers |
| The world’s major
religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different
places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence
of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine
laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet. --
Robert Muller |  |
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"As believers we all have an
opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to
rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance." -- Queen
Noor of Jordan |
| "Be
a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead of a discordant note. The medicine
this sick world needs is love. Hatred must be replaced by love, and fear by faith
that love will prevail."
-- Peace Pilgrim
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What
interfaith seeks to do is to not allow religion to fall back into confrontational
modes, into contemporary crusades and jihads, rather to move onwards to a new
level of interfaith harmony and understanding."
-- Dr. Karen Singh
"I
would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored
rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of
propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot
say we have the only truth." -- Bishop
John Shelby Spong |
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''We're
talking about calling the entire world of religion into a global dialogue,''
-- Bishop William E. Swing
Spirituality
Day - December 31