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One Quotes by Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can…
- If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses…
- Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous…
- God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or…
- Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.
- If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that…
- He was decisive and wholehearted in everything he did, so intent non the task at hand that he never looked over his shoulder, even if…
- The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles…
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