They taught that compassion brings you into the presence of God. They weren't saying this simply because it sounds good. They said it because it works. - Karen Armstrong Quotes
They taught that compassion brings you into the presence of God. They weren't saying this simply because it sounds good. They said it because it works. Karen Armstrong
 

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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Karen Armstrong

 Christianity English Writer
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

Karen Armstrong

 Beginning English Writer
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Karen Armstrong

 Art English Writer
Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.

Karen Armstrong

 
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Karen Armstrong

 English Writer
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Karen Armstrong

 English Writer
Compassion is not a popular virtue. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Karen Armstrong

 English Writer
A Short History of Myth. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

A Short History of Myth.

Karen Armstrong

 History
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Karen Armstrong

 Religious
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. - Karen Armstrong Quotes

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Karen Armstrong

 English Writer Nature
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