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9/11 allowed us to witness the ordinary face of goodness in the love that those about to die brought with them to work that day. It is fitting that we refer to a large segment of the church year as Ordinary Time because it describes the look of the true faith that, as we read of the Kingdom, is spread about us.

— Eugene Kennedy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

— George Carey

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

— Timothy Radcliffe

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

— Barack Obama

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

— Richard Dawkins

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

— Origen

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

— Robert Anton Wilson

It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

— Hans Jonas

The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.

— Joanne Woodward

✗Opposing Perspectives

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.

— Roger Mahony