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Karen Armstrong has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.
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That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.
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One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't…
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If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of…
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How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political…
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I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from…
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The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know…
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
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In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous…
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A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
— Wes Craven
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Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I…
— Megyn Kelly
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I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves…
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