"Often when religious leaders come together, they talk……" — Karen Armstrong
"Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life."
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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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More Abstruse Quotes
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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to…
— David Hume
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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit…
— Galileo Galilei
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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim…
— Mark Twain
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Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature.…
— Unknown Author
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse…
— Benjamin Graham
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Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize…
— Georges Lemaitre
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I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not…
— Michel de Montaigne
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French…
— James Fenton
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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever…
— Galileo Galilei
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There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in…
— Joseph Addison
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