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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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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.…
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A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors.…
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Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who…
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The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
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There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of…
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The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking.…
— Nicholas D'Agosto
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I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its…
— Virginia Woolf
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Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You…
— Karen Armstrong
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Demon pox," said Sophie. "Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months…
— Cassandra Clare
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In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.
— Robbie Williams
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