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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 have to open…

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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…
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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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of… — Dean Koontz
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. — Josh Billings
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy… — Albert Einstein
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by… — Philip James Bailey
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov
But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see… — Ken Wilber
"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away." — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the… — Orison Swett Marden
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the… — Aldo Leopold
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine… — Andre Malraux

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