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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted…

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all… — Therese of Lisieux
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry… — Lars von Trier
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt… — Maria Monk
I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. — Sharon Horgan
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by… — Vivian Stanshall
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims.… — Ibn Arabi
My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this… — Cathleen Falsani

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