Many Lamps, One Flame

Saint Thomas Aquinas said: "To one with faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

Mahatma Gandhi said: "The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different."

Molana Jalal ad din Mohammed Rumi said: “The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.”
"I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple." "I went to the temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to the church and I didn't find him there. Then I went to the mosque and I didn't find him there. Finally I looked in my heart and found Him; he was there all along."

Paramahansa Yogananda said:
“Saints of all religions have attained God-realization through the simple concept of the Cosmic Beloved. Because the Absolute is ‘without qualities,’ and ‘inconceivable.’ Human thought and yearning have ever personalized It as the Universal Mother.”

Epictetus said: "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. "

Mother Teresa said: "No color, no religion, no nationality should come between us. We are all children of God."

Ramana Maharshi said: "Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same."

Rabia al Basri said: “Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.”

Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, verse 4:11, “Ye yatha mam prapadyante, tan tathaiva bhajami aham” – "by whatsoever way men seek me, I accept them the same way. Thus, there is One God, who appears to us in the form that we seek Him in."