13 Quotes About Interfaith

Interfaith Relationships – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith – Interfaith. Interfaith Relationships. The need for interfaith relationships is as important as the need for interracial relationships now, and this need will grow as we live in ever more interdependent relationships with each other. Our interreligious relationships will be vital to us as we learn to live and work together and to share with each other our common hopes and dreams. Interfaith Relationships: A Need for Understanding. Interreligious relationships are not only important now but become increasingly so as we live in a world dominated by interdependent networks of peoples and nations. In this age of globalization, where interdependent networks of peoples and nations dominate world economics, politics, science, health care, news media, culture, communication technology, agriculture, transportation, energy, and other important areas of life, our ability to work together not only benefits us but the world as a whole. We can work together on solving problems that face our entire planet. Interreligious Relationships: A Challenge of Compassion. As we adjust to a global system of interdependent networks of people and nations, our ability to work together becomes increasingly important both for the benefit of the world as a whole and for the benefit of individuals within those networks who have closer relationships with those who are more distant from them Read more

In fact, this is one reason why people living in some countries have greater opportunities for working together than those living in some other countries that have fewer resources or fewer people from those countries who have been invited into those networks by those from those countries with whom they have more direct relationships. Interreligious Relationships: A Challenge of Compassionate Communication. As we adjust to a global system of interconnected people and nations where issues related to religion, culture, politics, economics, health care, communication technology or science can affect all people everywhere or which can affect only some people in some places but not all people everywhere in all times , our ability to communicate about these issues becomes particularly vital for individuals within particular networks who have closer relationships with others within the network than they do with others who are more distant from them . Interreligious Relationships: A Challenge of Mutual Respect between People of Faith . As we adjust to interconnected people and nations among which issues related to religion, culture , politics , economics , health care ,

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Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect. Unknown
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Reading the recipe of your grandma’s chicken soup will never compare to the taste. Seeing a magnificent sunset will never compare to somebody else’s description of that same sunset. Feeling the electrifying sensation of a passionate kiss will never compare to a second-hand account. Nothing replaces experience. If experience is at the heart of every religion, then theology points the way, practice gives us the vehicle, but we must take the steps if we want to personally explore our faith and reap experiences rather than rely solely on second-hand accounts. Gudjon Bergmann
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In an ideal world, both experifaith and storyfaith would provide spiritual aspirants of all faiths with guidance. Storyfaith would preserve tradition and teach morals through parables and examples. Experifaith would provide the blueprint for a personal path to follow. In the context of chocolate, storyfaith is a lecture about chocolate, including information about origins and fables about positive attributes, while experifaith is the literal act of tasting the chocolate. . Gudjon Bergmann
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History has taught us that when understanding and tolerance are fostered, people of different faiths can live together in harmony. Regrettably, history has also taught us the opposite, that such states of equilibrium can quickly degenerate and succumb to rhetoric of anger and fear, sometimes leading to violence and even war. A balance of mutual respect and tolerance needs to be maintained through good works. Interrelations need continual nurturing. . Gudjon Bergmann
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If you are able to show goodness to yourself, your family, friends, and maybe to some in your community, you are doing better than most. In fact, it can be harder to show goodness to those who stand close to you than to those who are in faraway places. If more people tended to their own gardens, all of society would flourish as a result. Gudjon Bergmann
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Love is the most complex of all human phenomena. It exists on a spectrum from tolerance and kindness to romantic love and self-sacrifice, reaching its pinnacle in altruism, a love that needs nothing in return. Gudjon Bergmann
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I don't think anyone could really know her, just as the peak of her struggle blooms, she again appearered to have held it all together when the whole world; would have thought, she'd fall Apart. Nikki Rowe
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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?pg 54 Michael Ben Zehabe
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At Abraham's burial, his two most prominent sons, rivals since before they were born, estranged since childhood, scions of rival nations, come together for the first time since they were rent apart nearly three-quarters of a century earlier. The text reports their union nearly without comment. "His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre, in the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites." But the meaning of this moment cannot be diminished. Abraham achieves in death what he could never achieve in life: a moment of reconciliation between his two sons, a peaceful, communal, side-by-side flicker of possibility in which they are not rivals, scions, warriors, adversaries, children, Jews, Christians, or Muslims. They are brothers. They are mourners. In a sense they are us, forever weeping for the loss of our common father, shuffling through our bitter memories, reclaiming our childlike expectations, laughing, sobbing, furious and full of dreams, wondering about our orphaned future, and demanding the answers we all crave to hear: What did you want from me, Father? What did you leave me with, Father? And what do I do now?. Bruce Feiler
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We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi Michael Ben Zehabe
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God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions. Unknown
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Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries–which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)–interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree. . Gudjon Bergmann