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? asked in Education & ReferenceQuotations · 8 years ago

Who said this about belief in God ?

Who said "We all worship the same God, we just call Him different names " ? Please note that I'm asking who said it (or wrote it) - I am not interested in a tirade from religious nutters all trying to deny the validity of any other religion, or spouting meaningless quotes from one book or another.

Update:

Thank you both for your answers - nothing to choose between them, so I'll have to go with the earlier one. Thanks again

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    One would say it is traditional, & as for a point of origin..., well as usual the internet muddies this with tens of thousands of results...

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&q=quote+%2...

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Here are a few specific quotes that convey that message...

    God has no religion.

    Each one prays to God according to his own light.

    - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

    God's Spirit moves through us and the world

    at a pace that can never be constricted

    by any one religious paradigm.

    I love that.

    - Bono

    More are the names of God and infinite are the forms

    through which He may be approached.

    In whatever name and form you worship Him,

    through them you will realise Him.

    - Ramakrishna

    Our creator is the same and never changes

    despite the names given Him by people here

    and in all parts of the world.

    Even if we gave Him no name at all,

    He would still be there, within us,

    waiting to give us good on this earth.

    - George Washington Carver

    How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we

    are all madly in love with the same God.

    - Thomas Aquinas

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Something like that has been said by many different people in many different ways.

    Learn how to use reliable "quotation" sources, like Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Trying to track down the source of a quote on the internet is virtually impossible thanks the the prevalence of stupid "quote websites" that make up quotes and attribute them to famous people who never said them.

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