Religion

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Religion makes experience meaningful and sacred – or it expresses the fact that these things are true of experience, properly understood.

It does indeed add another dimension to experience. 

Marilynne Robinson

Peace & Religion

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Peace involves a profound crisis of identity. The boundaries of self and other, friend and foe, must be redrawn. … If faith is enlisted in the cause of war, there must be an equal and opposite counter-voice in the name of peace. If religion is not part of solution, it will certainly be part of the problem.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Listening

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Until you hear the whole story, until you dig deeper, and listen, you know only a tiny part of the goodness of the human heart.

Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Religion & Politics

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Those who think religion and politics are not connected don't know much about politics, nor about religion.

Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi