If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Shelley says love people even if their religion differs, since birthplace shapes belief.
- In plain terms
- Love people of different faiths since birthplace shapes belief.
- What can you take from it?
- Love people despite religious differences caused by chance.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you judge others' beliefs?
- Can love overcome difference?
Another view
Some religious differences may involve genuine ethical conflict.
More from Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.
Permalink to quote #13 Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes.
Permalink to quote #15 Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
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