Quotes about Coexistence

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

All men are made one for another: Either then teach them better or bear with them.

Living with people at close range over many years, as both monastics and small-town people do, is much more difficult than wearing a hair shirt. More difficult, too, I would add, than holding to the pleasant but unrealistic ideal of human perfectibility that seems to permeate much New Age thinking.

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

There are only three ways to deal with non-Muslims under Islamic law: They must be converted, they must be subjugated and humiliated, or they must be eliminated

There was a common proverb of old, "What is it to the Romans that the Greeks die?" So we think that our dangers and calamities only belong to ourselves. But how does this principle agree with the commandment of God? For his will is that we should all live together, and be to each other as brethren.

Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.