"In the past some of the most influential……" — Karen Armstrong
"In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do."
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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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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
— David Berlinski
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul…
— Robert Barron
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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to…
— Bertrand Russell
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
— Lionel Blue
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Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads…
— Edward Feser
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s…
— Mishka
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that…
— James A. Michener
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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of…
— Allan Bloom
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