"I don't think religions will merge into a great global faith. But I do believe we're moving toward a global ideology that has a place for religion and recognizes the contributions of the different traditions. Hopefully, it will have an overarching view as to how we can work together for the promotion of human values and spirituality."

-- Ninian Smart

#Believe Quotes #Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“May be refined, and join the angelic train.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (2012). “The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir”, p.4, Courier Corporation
“We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.”
“In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.”
“Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldnâ€™t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didnâ€™t know, but she did know that before this was over, sheâ€™d either end up in Dmitriâ€™s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.”
“Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.”
“I feel strangely normal.”
“I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.”
“I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.”

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