"Storytelling is fine as long as you can……" — Karen Armstrong
"Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories."
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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 Act Quotes
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one of 8,447 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
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Criticize the act, not the person.
— Mary Kay Ash
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure…
— Julian Assange
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Gardening is not a rational act.
— Margaret Atwood
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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