“My greatest fear, I think, in our world is that we fail to see how very fast out civilization can unravel. Both in terms of environmental disaster and in terms of economic and military disaster. We don’t understand how quickly it could all fall away. And we don’t have enough sense of urgency about reconciliation. We don’t have enough sense of urgency about our material environment. And we need some sharp and clear voices to say, “Wake up. Wake up to how very quickly this could disappear!”
-Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and Head of the Church of England
“I wish I could say that it’s going to get better and better and better. But the Bible teaches that our history is not cyclical. It is linear and the day will come when the forces of evil and the forces of God will face a final and a rather cataclysmic confrontation.
While I pray and hope that my children will not have to see that, I believe that the day is going to come when history as we know it will end.”
-Dr. Frank S. Page, President of the Southern Baptist Convention
“Starting from this point we must find the way to meet each other in the family, among generations, and then among cultures and peoples as well. We must find the way to reconciliation and peaceful coexistence in this world, the ways that lead to the future. We will not find these ways leading to the future if we do not receive light from above.”
-Pope Benedict XVI, Head of the Roman Catholic Church
“Nobody can determine the future of the world, especially in view of the existence of large world centers, which possess weapons of mass destruction, and the economic power through which they try to take over the economy of others, the political power to pressure the others, and the security power through which they try to topple the others. The problems of the world are caused by those who have no respect for the humanity of others and are motivated by an imperialistic thinking that tramples on human beings’ goodness and energy. However, we wish that the world would advance through science and knowledge, which should be used to build and not to destroy life, in the interest of human beings and not against them.”
-Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Prominent Shiite Muslim Leader
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