There is exactly one God — a single source behind everything that is.
24 faiths across 16 families · 46 passages
Non-dualityThe apparent many are ultimately one; separateness is the illusion to see through.
21 faiths across 13 families · 45 passages
IncarnationThe divine takes on flesh and enters history as a living person.
20 faiths across 5 families · 32 passages
Balance of oppositesOpposites need each other; wisdom holds them together rather than picking a winner.
18 faiths across 15 families · 51 passages
Good and evil at warExistence is a contest between good and evil, and every choice takes a side.
16 faiths across 13 families · 39 passages
Absolute divine unityGod is one without parts, partners, or peers — unity as the deepest fact about the divine.
14 faiths across 7 families · 23 passages
Spirits in all thingsThe world is inhabited: rivers, trees, and places have spirits of their own.
14 faiths across 12 families · 56 passages
Dharma / cosmic orderA cosmic order holds the world together, and a life should move in step with it.
12 faiths across 9 families · 29 passages
TrinityOne God in three persons, distinct yet undivided.
7 faiths across 1 family · 13 passages
The choice is genuinely yours — nothing compels the soul's answer.
48 faiths across 26 families · 94 passages
LiberationRelease from the cycle — the freedom that ends the wandering.
30 faiths across 21 families · 65 passages
ImpermanenceNothing lasts. All things arise, change, and pass away — and wisdom begins there.
25 faiths across 20 families · 52 passages
Final judgmentA final reckoning, in which every life is weighed.
22 faiths across 9 families · 32 passages
AwakeningSeeing reality as it actually is — the transformation the path bends toward.
17 faiths across 10 families · 37 passages
No fixed selfThere is no unchanging self to find; the 'I' is a process, not a thing.
12 faiths across 9 families · 17 passages
ResurrectionThe dead will rise bodily — death is not the end of the body's story.
12 faiths across 5 families · 27 passages
RebirthThe self returns in new lives, again and again, until something releases it.
11 faiths across 8 families · 19 passages
KarmaEvery act carries its consequence forward; what you do shapes what you become.
10 faiths across 8 families · 23 passages
Sudden awakeningAwakening does not accumulate — it arrives all at once, like a door swinging open.
7 faiths across 4 families · 19 passages
PredestinationThe outcome was settled before you arrived; sovereignty runs all the way down.
6 faiths across 4 families · 7 passages
A text stands as the final measure of truth and practice.
66 faiths across 22 families · 188 passages
Direct experience of the divineThe divine can be met firsthand, without intermediary.
45 faiths across 18 families · 125 passages
Many valid pathsTruth admits many approaches; different paths can climb the same mountain.
38 faiths across 21 families · 79 passages
ProphethoodGod speaks through chosen messengers who carry the word to their people.
25 faiths across 10 families · 60 passages
An open canonScripture is not finished — the heavens still speak, and the canon stays open.
24 faiths across 13 families · 39 passages
The inner lightSomething of the divine is present in every person, and can be consulted directly.
20 faiths across 16 families · 30 passages
GraceUnearned favor — the divine gives what no effort could purchase.
19 faiths across 6 families · 47 passages
Messiah / promised oneAn awaited figure who will arrive, or return, to set the world right.
18 faiths across 6 families · 29 passages
Submission to GodPeace is found by surrendering the will entirely to God.
14 faiths across 5 families · 28 passages
Gifts of the SpiritThe Spirit still gives powers — healing, prophecy, tongues — to ordinary believers.
7 faiths across 4 families · 15 passages
Progressive revelationTruth arrives in installments, each messenger suited to their age.
7 faiths across 6 families · 16 passages
Faith over worksTrust, not accomplishment, is what saves; works follow faith rather than earn it.
5 faiths across 1 family · 6 passages
Prescribed action — gesture, word, and timing — carrying meaning the way language carries thought.
118 faiths across 38 families · 323 passages
Purity and renewalImpurity accumulates and can be washed away — renewal through cleansing.
56 faiths across 22 families · 149 passages
AsceticismRenouncing comfort on purpose, stripping life down until only what matters remains.
43 faiths across 20 families · 103 passages
DevotionLoving surrender to the divine — the heart's attachment as a path in itself.
43 faiths across 17 families · 190 passages
PrayerAddressing the divine directly — petition, praise, or simple presence.
38 faiths across 12 families · 87 passages
SacramentsRites through which the divine becomes tangibly present — grace given a body.
36 faiths across 3 families · 56 passages
MeditationTraining attention itself — sitting with the mind until it grows still or clear.
29 faiths across 13 families · 72 passages
Joy as devotionDelight as a religious act — celebration reaches where solemnity cannot.
24 faiths across 15 families · 61 passages
PilgrimageA journey to a sacred place, where the traveling is itself the devotion.
17 faiths across 10 families · 37 passages
FastingGoing without food for a time, so hunger can teach what plenty cannot.
16 faiths across 3 families · 29 passages
Ritual proprietyRight form in every encounter — ceremony as the shape of respect.
8 faiths across 8 families · 36 passages
Effortless actionActing without forcing — moving with the grain of things, the way water does.
3 faiths across 2 families · 18 passages
Truth is discerned together; authority rests with the gathered community.
95 faiths across 32 families · 259 passages
Lineage transmissionThe teaching passes living from teacher to student, hand to hand across generations.
84 faiths across 27 families · 197 passages
A people set apartA people set apart by covenant or calling, bearing a particular charge.
47 faiths across 9 families · 77 passages
MartyrdomBearing witness at the cost of one's life — a death that testifies.
35 faiths across 14 families · 89 passages
CovenantA binding agreement between the divine and a people, with obligations flowing both ways.
30 faiths across 10 families · 70 passages
Apostolic successionAuthority handed down in an unbroken chain from the founders.
26 faiths across 3 families · 41 passages
Saints and intercessionThe holy dead remain close, and can be asked to intercede.
23 faiths across 11 families · 45 passages
Ancestor venerationThe dead remain part of the family; honoring them keeps the bond alive.
16 faiths across 13 families · 87 passages
Work done for others as worship — the hands as instruments of belief.
64 faiths across 26 families · 133 passages
Human equalityEvery person stands equal; no rank, caste, or birth holds before the divine.
57 faiths across 24 families · 158 passages
Sacred lawDivine will expressed as law — a code of conduct that is itself an act of devotion to keep.
53 faiths across 18 families · 138 passages
Charity as dutyGiving to those in need is obligation, not generosity — a debt the fortunate owe.
35 faiths across 21 families · 72 passages
CompassionFeeling the suffering of others as one's own, and acting to ease it.
26 faiths across 17 families · 86 passages
Non-violenceNo harm to any living being — restraint as the deepest strength.
26 faiths across 14 families · 52 passages