Tolerance of other faiths helps truer understanding of one's own

All faiths are a gift of God, but partake of human imperfection, as they pass through the medium of humanity. God-given religion is beyond all speech. Imperfect men put it into such language as they can command, and their words are interpreted by other men equally imperfect. Whose interpretation must be held to be the right one? Everyone is right from his own standpoint, but it is not impossible that everyone is wrong. Hence the necessity for tolerance, which does not mean indifference towards one's own faith, but a more intelligent and purer love for it....
​True knowledge of religion breaks down the barriers between faith and faith and gives rise to tolerance. Cultivation of tolerance for other faiths will impart to us a truer understanding of our own.

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Truth is God
(Gleanings from the writings of Mahatma Gandhi
bearing on God, God-Realization and the Godly Way)
Written by : M. K. Gandhi
Compiled by : R. K. Prabhu
Printed and Published by Navajivan Mudranalaya.
© Navajivan Trust, 1955

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Tracking  Gandhi
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