Best quotes by Karen Armstrong on Life
Checkout quotes by Karen Armstrong on Life
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‟ If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
- Karen Armstrong
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‟ Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
- Karen Armstrong
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‟ Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
- Karen Armstrong
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‟ But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
- Karen Armstrong
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‟ Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
- Karen Armstrong