Browse 66 quotes about Interfaith Dialogue.
“You can be a believer and still be human,
You can be an atheist and still be human.
You can be whatever and still be human,
But there's no such thing as a fundamentalist human.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Every peacemaker is muslim,
Every lover is christian.
Every helper is buddhist,
Every lifter is human.
Every lovenut is sufi,
Every braveheart is latin.
Every collectivist is jew,
Every secularist is advaitin.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Goodness is universal,
vessels may vary.
Some call it water,
some agua, some pani.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Grow out of the kindergarten of scripture, earn your admittance into the university of love.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Logic doesn't make you a good person, love does. Belief doesn't make you a good person, behavior does.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“More muslims die from Islamist extremism than any other people. So don't you dare tell me, Islam is the same as Islamism! Islam is a people, Islamism is a sickness, just like Christianity is a people, Christian nationalism is a sickness - Hinduism is a people, Hindutva is a sickness - Atheism is a people, militant atheism is a sickness. And unless the peaceloving humans from each of these communities reach out to one another with a hand of integration, the nutcases from each of these communities will drag us all down the road of death and despair.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Islamophobia doesn't disappear simply because you choose to close your eyes. Can you stand by a dehumanized muslim, against the bigoted barbarians of your own culture, and speak out at the top of your voice and conviction - I am a muslim, just as much as I am a christian - I am a muslim, just as much as I am a jew - I am a muslim, just as much as I am a buddhist - hindu - or atheist? Can you? Because, until every threat to the welfare of the dehumanized humans actually, genuinely, internally feels like a threat to your own family, no phobia will ever come to an end - no hatred will ever face demise. Till every culture, every country, every corner of the planet, becomes our own culture, our own country, our own home, there is no peace, there will never be peace. And this, my friend, is called practical divinity, practical sufism, practical nondualism, and practical humanism. Or better yet, this is the ism beyond all isms - this is the ism that concerns the life, laughter and loveliness of the entire humankind - this - is humanity.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“My mission is to flood the world with Christs by the thousands, Buddhas by the hundreds, and Mevlanas by the millions.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Interfaith Sonnet
Not every christian is a good human,
But every good human is a christian.
Not every muslim is a good human,
But every good human is a muslim.
Not every jew is a good human,
But every good human is a jew.
Not every hindu is a good human,
But every good human is a hindu.
Not every buddhist is a good human,
But every good human is a buddhist.
Not every humanist is a good human,
But every good human is a humanist.
Goodness is universal, vessels may vary.
Some call it water, some agua, some pani.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Better be an outspoken bigot than a counterfeit freethinker.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“It doesn't matter whether you are muslim, christian, jew or atheist. It doesn't matter whether you are black, white, brown or martian. If you have love in your heart and kindness in your hands, then you are human. But if your existence is anemic of love and kindness, then no matter how human you look, and how many Sundays and Fridays you spend at the church or the mosque, you ain't no human.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Thus Speaks God (The Sonnet)
Ik onkar, satnaam,
Porque, yo soy insan.
Aham bismillahsmi,
Çünkü, benim adım vicdan.
Sarva dharman parityajya,
Giving up all national grave,
Nos haremos vessels of verdad,
Rise we shall as sapiens brave.
Divinidad está en cada cultura,
But no culture is pure divinity.
Human divided is human undivine,
Hatelessness is civilized divinity.
Thus speaks God in tongue beyond tongues.
One vessel isn't enough to contain my neurons.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“There is more to faith, family and tradition than white, straight and christian.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use it. Likewise, if you know that we have evolved from the apes through natural selection, then you should also know about the fascinating mental faculty we developed alongside reason, called empathy. Use it.
Some might say, it is cowardly of me to not pick any side with confidence. Well, I am a behaviorist after all. You don't expect me to peddle the same old dualistic ideologies that philosophers and theologians have been peddling for centuries, do you - that too with a complete disregard for the necessities of the everyday mind! I want to induce integration in the world, not conversion.
So I say, if you believe in God, make it a reason for assimilation, not segregation. If you prefer reason, use it for warm ascension, not cold and fancy descension.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“If you believe in God, make it a reason for assimilation, not segregation. If you prefer reason, use it for warm ascension, not cold and fancy descension.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“It's the human mind that's the root of all good and evil - science and religion are merely accessory to the intention.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Science, Religion & Superstition (The Sonnet)
Religion is all evil, is the superstition,
That half-cocked rationalists suffer from.
Science is devil's work, is the superstition,
That bookish religionists suffer from.
Take the I and cross it out,
Lo, you have a living Christ!
Take the self and set it on fire,
Lo, you have a timeless light!
Yes, I want to convert the world,
I want to convert all cussing into hugging.
Yes, I want to convert the people, all of them,
I want to convert mindless mocking into mending.
I am no preacher, I am no scholar, I am no thinker.
But, without some basic humanity, we shall all wither.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“The Humanity Festival
(Interfaith Anthem, 2598-2599)
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Beyond the void of us and them,
join the circle, break the chains.
Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.
Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the antithesis of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.
Mercy is no mercy that's reserved for a few,
mercy is the light we carry in all we do.
The spirit of godliness that we hold inside,
is meant to light the world, far and wide.
Fasting and feasting turn to futile noise,
if life drifts from life, trampling human joys.
Candles and fireworks become childish pranks,
if underneath them all the kernel is blank.
Kindness in our soul, courage in our skin -
every person is my people, every stranger is kin.
Humanity is the festival, occasions are garments,
love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“My holiness is rooted in life and humanity. Life is sweet, life is holy, when lived for humanity.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“English is my work language,
Turkish is my love language,
Spanish is my play language,
Telugu is my leisure language.
This would probably be different for you - perhaps for you, it all happens in one language - English, and that's perfectly fine. Different people are inspired in different ways - it's alright - as long as all our inspirations converge into one result - a better world for all - where there is no interracial dialogue, there is no intercultural communication, there is no interreligious relations - because - there is but one race, humanity - there is but one culture, humanity - there is but one religion, humanity.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use it. Likewise, if you know that we have evolved from the apes through natural selection, then you should also know about the fascinating mental faculty we developed alongside reason, called empathy. Use it.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Interfaith dialogue doesn't mean, 'come, let me tell you something about my faith.' Interfaith dialogue means, 'come, tell me something about your faith - I want to learn - I want to grow'.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“The universal faith is love.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“The universal reason is love,
The universal faith is love.
All else is but a faint echo,
Driving us away from love.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Let's start a tradition - a tangible tradition of integration. Instead of celebrating our own culture, let's dedicate each festival of ours to our sisters and brothers from another culture - let's celebrate their goodness, their laughter, their wisdom - so that one day, our children may wake up to a world where there is no "our culture and their culture", just "human culture".”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Born by the Ganges,
Reborn by Bosphorus.
The name is Human,
Reformador of Earth.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Integration is the cure for terrorism.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“I am not east, I am not west, I am the whole world. I have absorbed the good from every single culture of planet earth, and now the entire world courses through my veins as lifeblood. That is why, I am a human being - that is why, I am a whole human being.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Aum Amen Assalaam (The Interfaith Sonnet)
Jo bole so nihal - honest, brave 'n nondual!
Ain't no human run by divisionism.
You may say Merhaba, or Hallelujah,
Smiling I respond, Walaikum Assalam.
Every human greeting is an act of peace,
Language differs, not the emotion.
Yet we keep bickering over language,
Overlooking all loving unison.
Chag sameach say some of us,
Some say happy holidays!
Across the words, into the heart,
We'll find the flame of happiness.
Underneath every version of felicidad,
there is a sense of illumination.
Aim of all Aum and Amen - is unification.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Every human greeting is an act of peace.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“One who has integration in their heart, will find integration everywhere, but those who have nothing but hate in their heart, will remain hateful no matter how many messengers of love come and go.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Every peacemaker is muslim, every lover is christian, every helper is buddhist.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the antithesis of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Faith doesn't become divine until you breathe oneness into it.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Love speaks louder than faith.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“God is tolerance.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“I'm not interested in proving or disproving God, I long resigned from all such arguments. I am a pilgrim of love and life, all are welcome, all are celebrated.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“God faith is interfaith.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“All scriptures are blasphemy, when peddled as exclusive, infallible handbook to divinity.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Every religion is right religion, or none are.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“By saying your religion is the only right religion,
you only prove, your religion is the wrong religion.
Religion as an excuse for separation is always wrong,
till you transcend religion, all faith is delusion.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“By saying your religion is the only right religion, you only prove, your religion is the wrong religion.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“The Being is The Bridge (The Sonnet)
I came to life at Dakshineswar,
At Kapadokya I got my sight.
I found my might at Shaolin,
At Liberty Island I came to light.
In Pernik I bathed in love,
By the Volga I tasted sapience.
Lika taught me the role of innovation,
Sudbury gave me the sail of science.
Streets of Calcutta showed me suffering,
Streets of Chicago reminded, I'm the answer.
It's not the place but people who hold magic,
Revolution rose when all of them came together.
You won't know me as the father of a nation.
You'll know me as the maker of amalgamation.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“In 762, to symbolize and propel the new order, Al-Mansur decided to build the grand new capital of Baghdad as a massive round city. The caliph assembled an elite team of the empire’s top engineers, architects, and visionaries—notably including Zoroastrians, Christians, and Jews, such as Mashallah Ibnul-Athari.”
Source: The Life of the Qur'an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
“I am not east, I am not west, I am the whole world.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“One of the biggest challenges for people involved in interfaith dialogue is to break down the stereotypes of the "other" that exist within their own religious traditions and groups. Religious groups need to first acknowledge and confess their own role in fostering and contributing to injustice and conflict. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 49)”
Source: Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding
“The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52)”
Source: Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding
“I strongly feel that it is only when there is a deep understanding of one's own religious beliefs and commitments that progress can be made in achieving true understanding and respect for the religious values and beliefs of others. Engaging in interfaith dialogue does not in any way mean undermining one's own faith or religious tradition. Indeed, interfaith dialogue is constructive only when people become firmly grounded in their own religious traditions and through that process gain a willingness to listen and respect the beliefs of other religions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 48-49)”
Source: Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding
“Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and themes that various traditions may have in common. These approaches have also assumed that participants have to "weaken" or "compromise" elements of their own faith... this is not necessarily constructive for engaging in interfaith understanding and dialogue. It is only when participants have a deep understanding of their own religious traditions and are willing to learn and recognize the richness of other religious traditions that constructive cooperation can take place between groups from different faiths. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 57-58)”
Source: Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding