Weltreligionen

Die Goldene Regel, LIEBE, GEBET,
FRIEDEN – GESUNDHEIT / HEILUNG – UNSTERBLICHKEIT

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.

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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.

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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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Peace in the World's Great Religions

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 be at peace with him.

JAINISM: All men should live in peace with their fellows. This is the Lord's 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.

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Health and Healing in the World's Great Religions

CHRISTIANITY: The prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord shall raise him 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 a 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 of health 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.

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Immortality in the World's Great Religions

JUDAISM: The dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the Spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

CHRISTIANITY: The gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

ISLAM: Those who have believed and done the things which are right, these shall be inmates of Paradise.

JAINISM: I know there will be a life hereafter.

CONFUCIANISM: All the living must die and, dying, return to the ground, but the Spirit issues forth and is displayed in light.

HINDUISM: He becomes immortal who seeks the general good of man.

SIKHISM: Why weep when a man dieth, since he is only going home?

BUDDHISM: Earnestness is the path of immortality.

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.

TAOISM: Life is going forth. Death is a returning home.

ZOROASTRIANISM: The soul of the righteous shall be joyful in immortality.

BAHA'I: Make mention of Me on earth that in My Heaven I may remember Thee.