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Peace in the world's great religions

 

CHRISTIANITY: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the

children of God."

 

CONFUCIANISM: "Seek to be in harmony with all your neighbors...live in peace

with your brethren."

 

BUDDHISM: "There is no happiness greater than peace."

 

HINDUISM: "Without meditation, where is peace? Without peace, where is

happiness?"

 

ISLAM: "God will guide men to peace. If they will heed Him, He will lead

them from the darkness of war to the light of peace."

 

TAOISM: "The wise esteem peace and quiet above all else."

 

SIKHISM: "Only in the Name of the Lord do we find our peace."

 

JUDAISM: "When a man's ways please the Lord he maketh even his enemies be at

peace with him."

 

JAINISM: "All men should live in peace with their fellows. This is the

Lord's desire."

 

ZOROASTRIANISM: "I will sacrifice to peace, whose breath is friendly."

 

BAHA'I: "War is death while peace is life."

 

SHINTO: "Let the earth be free from trouble and men live at peace under the

protection of the Divine."

 

 

 

Love in the World's Great Religions

 

CHRISTIANITY: "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and

everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not,

knoweth not God, for God is love."

 

CONFUCIANISM: "To love all men, is the greatest benevolence."

 

BUDDHISM: "Let a man cultivate towards the whole world a heart of love."

 

HINDUISM: "One can best worship the Lord through love."

 

ISLAM: "Love is this, that thou shouldst account thyself very little and God

very great."

 

TAOISM: "Heaven arms with love those it would not see destroyed."

 

SIKHISM: "God will regenerate those in whose hearts there is love."

 

JUDAISM: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy

neighbor as thyself."

 

JAINISM: "The days are the most profit to him who acts in love."

 

ZOROASTRIANISM: "Man is the beloved of the Lord and should love him in

return."

 

 

BAHA'I: "Love Me that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me not, My love can no

wise reach thee."

 

SHINTO: "Love is the representative of the Lord."

 

 

 

The Golden Rule in the World's Great Religions

 

CHRISTIANITY: "...All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,

do ye even so to them..."

 

CONFUCIANISM: "Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto

you."

 

BUDDHISM: "In five ways should a clansman minister to his friends and

familiars - by generosity, courtesy and benevolence, by treating them as he

treats himself, and by being as good as his word."

 

HINDUISM: "Do not unto others, which if done to thee, would cause thee

pain."

 

ISLAM: "No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he

loves for himself."

 

SIKHISM: "As thou deemest thyself so deem others. Then shalt thou become a

partner in heaven."

 

JUDAISM: "What is hurtful to yourself, do not do to your fellow man."

 

JAINISM: "In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all

creatures as we regard our own self."

 

ZOROASTRIANISM: "That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another

whatever is not good for its own self."

 

TAOISM: "Regard your neighbor's gain as your gain and regard your neighbor's

loss as your own loss."