Religious Diversity—What’s the Problem? Quotes

“Regardless of how one may feel about specific doctrines of other faith traditions, this fact alone—their service to millions of fellow human beings—makes them worthy of our deep respect. Their profound benefit to others is really the ultimate reason each of us, believers and non-believers alike, must accord deep respect to the world’s great faith traditions.”
― Rita M. Gross, Religious Diversity—What’s the Problem?: Buddhist Advice for Flourishing with Religious Diversity

“Feeling called or needing to change people or situations “for their own good” is often quite aggressive and self-centered. Furthermore, in a world characterized by multiple diversities, the greatest compassion of all is to stop interfering so much with others, to stop claiming to know what everyone else should do and think, and to let them be who they are, just as we want to continue being who we are without exclusivists badgering us to imitate them.”
― Rita M. Gross, Religious Diversity—What’s the Problem?: Buddhist Advice for Flourishing with Religious Diversity