Communication Quote by David R. Smock

“Many of the traditional approaches to interfaith dialogue have assumed that it can be successful only if agreements are reached about amorphous concepts and…

— David R. Smock

“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…

— David R. Smock

“The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious…

— David R. Smock

Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have…

— Dalai Lama

The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as…

— Bill Moyers

The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices…

— Wayne Teasdale

“Interspirituality is not for everyone, but, for those of us who are interested, we have never lived in a better time to explore interspiritual…

— Gudjon Bergmann

“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply…

— Namsoon Kang

It is my hope that inter-religious and ecumenical cooperation will demonstrate that men and women do not have to forsake their identity, whether ethnic…

— Pope Francis

“I believe that before we can truly dialogue with one another we must first perceive intellectually, and then at the profoundest emotiomal level, that…

— John Howard Griffin

“Religion raises the stakes of human conflict much higher than tribalism, racism, or politics ever can, as it is the only form of in-group/out-group…

— Sam Harris

“With experience as their guiding light, Christian monks and nuns could, for example, come together with Sufis and Yogis to pray and meditate, then…

— Gudjon Bergmann