Universality

My heart is capable of every form: it is pasture for gazelles
and a convent for Christian monks,
And idol-temple and the pilgrim's Ka'ba (Mecca),
and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Koran;
I follow the religion of Love, whichever way his camels take;
My religion and my faith is the true religion.

~Ibn al Arabi


Thou didst fittingly.......inspire as Teacher millions of religions.
Thou didst in each religion, while it like the rest showed in
splendid fullness of treatises, disputations, sciences (make)
each its tenet to be the truth, the final goal.

~Tayumanavar


"....the very thing that is now called the Christian religion was not wanting
amongst the ancients from the beginning of the human reace, until Christ came in the flesh, after which the true religion, which had already existed, began to be called 'Christian'."

~St Augustine


"We have come to think of religion more as a set of rules of conduct than as a
doctrine about God; less as a doctrine about what we should be than one of what we ought to do; and because there is necessarily an element of contingency in every application of principles to particular cases, we have come to believe that theory differs as practice must. This confusion of necessary means with transcendent ends (as if the vision of God could be earned by works) has had unfortunate results for Christianity, both at home and abroad. The more the Church has devoted herself to "social service", the her influence has declined."

~Ananda K. Coomaraswamy