It is my sincere hope that in reading these words we will all realize the beauty found in God’s messages and the similarities between the many faiths of the world.

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."

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."

Prayer in the World's Great Religions

CHRISTIANITY: "When you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father, which is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret, shall reward you openly."

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 forever with prayers of piety."

BAHA'I: "Draw nigh to God and persevere in prayer so that the fire of God's love may grow more luminously in thy heart."

SHINTO: "If the poorest of mankind come for worship, I will surely grant their heart's desire."

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