"Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don’t want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity."
― Karen Armstrong
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Religion
More From Karen Armstrong
- "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."
- "Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective."
- "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."
More In Religion
- "Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- "I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan."― Tori Spelling
- "For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."― Albert Ellis