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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
— Richard M. Nixon
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You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for…
— Hermann Goring
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When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would…
— Willie Nelson
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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let…
— Daniel Berrigan
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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with…
— Theodore M. Burton
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I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up…
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
— Dalai Lama
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A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.
— Lanza del Vasto
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Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam…
— Paul Dickson
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