"If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology."

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Source : Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

Karen Armstrong

#Kindness Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Names Quotes

“It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.”
“We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.”
“A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.100, Broadway Books
“No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.”
“If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!”
“Love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love is stripped away, we see the real person clearly. There revealed to us, with all their flaws, their foibles, and their secrets.”
“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.”
“I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.”

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