A Quote By Joseph L. Subbiondo

"Religious pluralism only exists in an environment where there is religious diversity, but religious diversity alone cannot guarantee religious pluralism.  Religious pluralism requires consistent study, reflection, respect, and difficult conversation.  Religious pluralism enables us to stand together despite profoundly held differences.  While there are many similarities among the core beliefs of the world's religions, religious pluralism is not a 'melting pot' in which all religions become the same.  The religious pluralism that can be a path to interreligious dialogue demands that we honor the integrity of each faith tradition as a distinctive and legitimate lens for viewing the sacred."

- Joseph L. Subbiondo, President of California Institute of Integral Studies

Witnessing

"Say to the people this:  there is hope in your heart when you know God.  The Truth of God will be in your heart, as you experience it daily and momentarily, in the witness of life and living. It can be received in church through heartfelt understanding, (though no church could hold the full Truth of God).  The Truth of God is living and alive in the presence of the moment within the living presence of God through your heart.  In church you are asked what you know so that the full presence of God's Truth can be known.  As you speak to each other from your hearts in church, you understand a fuller knowledge of God's Truth, as there is that which you cannot know until you know each others' hearts.  Seek and you shall receive, ask and it shall be given.  God will hold you accountable for your hearts, and whether you are aligned with the true God.  Religion is here to reference God's accounts, and to witness what God has spoken, and to feel what God has felt, but there can be no true understanding of religion (only a reference).  In embarking on a new religion, therefore, you are witnessing a new reference to something of God.  Respect this.  In saying religion answers things, We say yes, it answers things because it brings you into the presence of God, and therefore allows you to experience God in your heart."

-channeled from Angels of Love