Needs Quote by Pope Francis

Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge…

— Pope Francis

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It…

— Eric Hoffer

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

— Jonathan Haidt

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

— Arthur Helps

“No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate to conflict,…

— Sharon Salzberg

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

— Sherry Turkle

“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives.

— Zal Batmanglij

“The communion that can be achieved by human conversation is of great significance for our private lives...It is the spiritual parallel of the physical…

— Mortimer J. Adler

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

— Noah Webster