"Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ."- Romans 10:17

"We honored man by the gift of free will. Half of him is honeybee, the other half snake. True believers are stores of honey. Stores of poison are those who do not believe." - Rumi, "Mathnawi"

"Have faith, my Child, have faith. Do not be bewildered. For you are beyond all things, The heart of all knowing. You are the Self. You are God." - Ashtavakra Gita 15:8

Sakka asked the Buddha: "Do different religious teachers head for the same goal or practice the same disciplines or aspire to the same thing?" "No, Sakka, they do not. And why? This world is made up of myriad different states of being, and people adhere to one or another of these states and become tenaciously possessive of them, saying, 'This alone is true, everything else is false.' It is like a territory that they believe is theirs. So all religious teachers do not teach the same goal or the same discipline, nor do they aspire to the same thing. "But if you find truth in any religion or philosophy, then accept that truth without prejudice."- Digha Nikaya