"The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule,……" — Karen Armstrong
"The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ."
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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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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and…
— Jeff Sessions
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Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.
— K.P. Yohannan
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Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices…
— Dalai Lama
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp.…
— Karl Popper
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We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They…
— Lee Jong-wook
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression…
— William J. Brennan
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We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as…
— Kofi Annan
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The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock…
— Kathryn Stripling Byer
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Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between…
— Raymond T. Odierno
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The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a…
— Rick Perry
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No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years…
— Max Lucado
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