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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

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Karen Armstrong has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth
Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is… — Story Musgrave
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for… — Robert Frost
The land is like poetry:Â Â it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to… — Barry Lopez
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all. — C.S. Lewis
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may… — Robert Bly
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so... — Izaak Walton
To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry...… — Bruce McCulloch
I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards,… — Alice Notley
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think… — H. L. Mencken
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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