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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong
English Writer
Born: Nov 14, 1944
Compassion God Islam Life People Religion
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. Karen Armstrong
God Nirvana About Buddhists Talk Terms Very Same Much Describe
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. Karen Armstrong
God Secular Stage Society Back Ways Out Has-Been Seeking Feel Peripheral Him Periphery Been Yes Different Center Different Ways Margin Fundamentalists Drag Position
Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. Karen Armstrong
God Bible Personality Better Meet Lay Writ Divine He Simply Idea Like Beyond Supreme Well Supreme Being Greater End End Product Just Being Whereas Bigger Regarded Centuries Us Means Product Large Series Symbol
Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition. Karen Armstrong
Criticism Before Sense Our East Dread Religious About Doing Tradition Were Off Lack Middle Middle East Whole Even
In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. Karen Armstrong
God Thoughts Words Speak Made Past Christian Difficult Muslim Some About Clear Most Because Ultimate End Very Influential In The Past Confront Theologians Jewish
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. Karen Armstrong
You People Long Fine Encourage Stories Storytelling Act
Human beings have always been mythmakers. Karen Armstrong
Always Been Human Human Beings Beings
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. Karen Armstrong
Jews East Muslims Able Perfectly Well Were Middle Middle East Centuries Christians
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. Karen Armstrong
Dreams Religion Too Relationships Everything Becomes Affects Region Fantasies Then Your Your Dreams Violence Violent
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