Sunita Williams Quotes

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

All religions have a point of convergence.

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

There is no difference between Muslim life, Christian life or Jewish life.

Washington is a city which drives us all to the lowest common denominator.

Things that bind a community together are the things that nobody has to talk about because everyone agrees about them.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

O people of the Book; Come, let us join together on the "word" (Unity of God), that is common to us all

We cannot allow events that might divide us in a small way to distract from the common values and the common interests that unite us in big ways.

My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.

You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

It's nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Ultimately, Hillary and Obama are on the same side.

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

I'm so happy I married a fellow Catholic because I think that marriage is tough enough - that's one area that's just not something we argue about. There's no contention about it because we're both on the same page.

In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.

It's interesting to go places and see that, at the end of the day, people just want to feel safe, and what that looks like to them varies... but that was encouraging to see that there is more common ground than perhaps I realized.