Karen Armstrong quote: "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."

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creeda...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology,...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how impo...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enab...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgr...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Human beings have always been mythmakers.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonide...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at lea...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to g...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Mu...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarn...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erect...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preservi...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly simila...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially sec...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Kor...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many t...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality,...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually,...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

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

A Short History of Myth.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Compassion is not a popular virtue.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, yo...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some g...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

It all depends on the weather. We're doubting a large number this year because the rivers aren't fro...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United S...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to th...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at so...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigge...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel we...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred,...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing thi...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulg...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Fundamentalism represents a rebellion against modern secular society, the separation of religion and...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who be...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sy...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

It can be confusing. But it's a wonderful organization.
KAREN ARMSTRONG

In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a p...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensi...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Midd...
KAREN ARMSTRONG

I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always ins...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really lik...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the pian...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push mysel...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should b...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

I found that doing Pilates consistently three to four times a week had an amazing effect on really t...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted ha...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japan...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partn...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group o...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you he...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exerci...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension,...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I still don't get golf.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, wh...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that&#...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

People love conspiracy theories.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curv...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of min...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and ac...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watchi...
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several ...
JONAS ARMSTRONG

You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That eve...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
JOHN ARMSTRONG

I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog, be...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's Octo...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's a strange climb ... long but not very steep, so you can keep 30, 40, 50 guys, and they can take...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It was a great day, especially with the weather. First the heat, then the thunder, then the sun agai...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

But if you ride your bike a mile away, she is not gonna find you.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. O...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was ...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The improvements in the tax structure in Lake County, including the tax settlement and the personal ...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

The rebuild of No. 14, with a 20-year life expectancy, is a significant financial investment in Gary...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remov...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

We still take them, and each and every MSHA citation, seriously.
JOHN ARMSTRONG

When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is p...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to ...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we b...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partn...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of p...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm, The sa...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

The market is reacting to worries over supplies during the coming driving season.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG

We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on pr...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG

That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put do...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG

That was a shocking gasoline build.
ADDISON ARMSTRONG

Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG

I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to cont...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Community service is a big part of scouting and this is a good project.
ADAM ARMSTRONG

I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time.
ADAM ARMSTRONG

Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.
ADAM ARMSTRONG

I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around t...
ADAM ARMSTRONG

She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.
ADAM ARMSTRONG

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if i...
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the m...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Something hit the floor with a crack. Nate turned and looked down to see his cell phone on the floor...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companion...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Simon whispered to me, “But is everything okay?”
“No,” Tori said. “I kidnapped her an...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I ha...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we h...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG

What we play is life.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
ROBERT ARMSTRONG

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to us...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choos...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more pur...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he ...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and figh...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from th...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
JOHN ARMSTRONG

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...
LANCE ARMSTRONG

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without o...
JOHN ARMSTRONG

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand,
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Research is creating new knowledge.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine
NEIL ARMSTRONG

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful,
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I was the strange creature that kidnapped Bock from his homeland and brought him to this strange new...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being ...
HEATHER ARMSTRONG

Thats sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful chi...
HEATHER ARMSTRONG

A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty drive...
TIM ARMSTRONG

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own wor...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
LANCE ARMSTRONG

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to be...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challe...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

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

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