Reflection
In a world of quantum possibilities and an expanding universe, future has an endless horizon. The religious dimension of our existence is simply the deep, intrinsic longing for absolute unity, beyond heaven and earth, a stretching forth into the incomprehensible love-energy that is God. How we harness this energy for a deepening of life ahead is the religious question of our age. It takes an inner freedom born of grace to let go into the new but the new is God and God is future. We are called to a radical trust in the future.
IIia Delio
Prayer
For nothing will be impossible with God.
Luke 1:37
Action
All religions have God as their end. The conflicts and prejudices among them are not from God but of human origin. Consider your attitude toward religions other than your own. Separate the acts of people from the teachings of religions.
Suggested Reading
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7-8
God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; God will rejoice over you with gladness; God will quiet you with love; God will exult over you with loud singing.
Zephaniah 3:17
For all our differences and disagreements, we can live in a world of peace. In opposing every attempt to create a rigid uniformity, we can and must build unity on the basis of our diversity of languages, cultures and religions, and lift our voices against everything which would stand in the way of such unity. Together we are called to say “no” to every attempt to impose uniformity and “yes” to a diversity accepted and reconciled.
Pope Francis
The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with him in the building of the civilization of love.
Pope John Paul II
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us.
Mother Teresa
All religions are paths to God.
Pope Francis
All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Epictetus
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are ranches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
Mahatma Gandhi