"Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and……" — Karen Armstrong
"Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders."
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105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong has 105 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
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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…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
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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…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and…
— Horace
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