World Religions
Teachings On
When you study all the
teachings of God to humanity you find the common wisdom, truth
and love. The following is what some of the world religions teach
on the universal consciousness of God and Humanity.
PRAYER
CHRISTIANITY
'WHEN YOU PRAY, ENTER INTO YOUR CLOSET, AND WHEN YOU HAVE SHUT
THE DOOR. PRAY TO YOUR FATHER IN SECRET, AND YOUR FATHER, WHO
SEES IN SECRET, SHALL REWARD YOU OPENLY.1
CONFUCIANISM
'SEDULOUSLY CULTIVATE THE VIRTUE OF REVERENCE. WHEN A MAN IS
DEVOTED TO THIS VIRTUE, HE MAY PRAY To HEAVEN.'
BUDDHISM
'THERE IS NO MEDITATION APART FROM WISDOM AND NO WISDOM APART
FROM MEDITATION. THOSE IN WHOM WISDOM AND MEDITATION MEET ARE
NOT FAR From NIRVANA.'
HINDUISM
'I MAKE PRAYER MY INMOST FRIEND.'
ISLAM
'NEVER, LORD, HAVE I PRAYED To THEE WITH ILL SUCCESS.'
SIKHISM
'THEY WHO CRY ALOUD IN TROUBLE OBTAIN REST BY PRAYER AND LOVING
GOD.'
JUDAISM
'PRAY TO THE LORD OUR GOD THAT HE MAY SHOW US THE WAY TO GO AND
THE THING WE SHOULD DO.'
ZOROASTRIANISM
'HE WHO is CALLED THE WISE LORD. THOU SHOULDST SEEK TO EXALT
FOR- EVER WITH PRAYERS OF PIETY.'
BAHA'I
'DRAW NIGH To GOD AND PERSEVERE IN PRAYER SO THAT THE FIRE OF
GOD'S LOVE MAY GLOW MORE LUMINOUS IN THY HEART.'
SHINTO
'IF THE POOREST OF MANKIND COME FOR WORSHIP, I WILL SURELY GRANT
THEM THEIR HEART'S DESIRE.'
HEALTH AND HEALING
CHRISTIANITY
'THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL HEAL THE SICK, AND THE LORD SHALL
RAISE THEM UP.
CONFUCIANISM
'HIGH MYSTERIOUS HEAVEN HATH FULLEST POWER TO HEAL AND BIND.'
BUDDHISM
'TO KEEP THE BODY IN GOOD HEALTH IS A DUTY. OTHERWISE WE SHALL
NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP OUR MIND STRONG AND CLEAR.'
HINDUISM
'ENRICHER, HEALER OF DISEASE, BE A GOOD FRIEND TO US.'
ISLAM
'THE LORD OF THE WORLDS CREATED ME AND
WHEN I AM SICK, HE HEALETH ME.'
TAOISM
'PURSUE A MIDDLE COURSE. THUS WILL YOU KEEP A HEALTHY BODY AND
HEALTHY MIND.'
SIKHISM
'GOD IS CREATOR OF ALL, THE REMOVER OF SICKNESS, THE GIVER OF
HEALTH.,
JUDAISM
'O LORD, my GOD. I CRIED To THEE FOR HELP AND THOU HAST Healed
ME.'
JAINISM
'ALL LIVING BEINGS OWE THEIR PRESENT STATE TO THEIR OWN KARMA.'
ZOROASTRIANISM
'LOVE ENDOWS THE SICK BODY OF MAN WITH FIRMNESS AND HEALTH.'
BAHA'I
'ALL HEALING COMES FROM GOD.'
SHINTO
'FOSTER A SPIRIT THAT REGARDS BOTH GOOD
AND EVIL AS BLESSINGS, AND THE BODY SPONTANEOUSLY BECOMES HEALTHY.'
PEACE
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
TO BE AT PEACE WITH HIM.'
JAINISM
'ALL MEN SHOULD LIVE IN PEACE WITH THEIR FELLOWS. THIS IS THE
Lord IS 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.'
IMMORTALITY
CHRISTIANITY
'THE Gift OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.'
CONFUCIANISM
'all the LIVING MUST DIE AND DYING RETURN TO THE GROUND, BUT
THE SPIRIT ISSUES FORTH AND Is DISPLAYED IN LIGHT.'
BUDDHISM
'EARNESTNESS IS THE PATH OF IMMORTALITY.'
HINDUISM
'HE BECOMES IMMORTAL WHO SEEKS THE GENERAL GOOD OF MAN.'
ISLAM
'THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEVED AND DONE THE THINGS WHICH ARE RIGHT,
THESE SHALL BE INMATES OF PARADISE.'
TAOISM
'LIFE IS GOING FORTH, DEATH IS GOING HOME.'
SIKHISM
'WHY WEEP WHEN A MAN DIETH SINCE HE IS ONLY GOING HOME?
JUDAISM
'THE DUST RETURNETH To THE EARTH AS IT WAS, AND THE SPIRIT RETURNETH
UNTO GOD WHO GAVE IT.'
JAINISM
'I KNOW THERE WILL BE A LIFE HERE AFTER.'
ZOROASTRIANISM
'THE SOUL OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE JOYFUL IN IMMORTALITY.'
BAHA'I
'MAKE MENTION OF ME UPON THE EARTH THAT IN My HEAVEN I MAY REMEMBER
THEE.'
SHINTO
'REGARD HEAVEN AS YOUR FATHER. EARTH AS YOUR MOTHER, ALL THINGS
AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND YOU WILL ENJOY the divine country
which excels all others
LOVE
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
NEIGH- BOR AS THYSELF.'
JAINISM
'THE DAYS ARE OF 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
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 Family
BY GENEROSITY, COURTESY, BENEVOLENCE, TREATING THEM AS HE TREATS
HIMSELF, AND BEING AS GOOD AS HIS WORD.'
HINDUISM
'DO NOT TO OTHERS, WHICH IF DONE TO THEE WOULD CAUSE THEE PAIN.'
ISLAM
'No ONE 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 OWN GAIN AND REGARD YOUR
NEIGHBOR'S LOSS AS YOUR OWN LOSS.'
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