Quote by Karen Armstrong
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. – Karen Armstrong

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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

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Every fundamentalist movement Ive studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. – Karen Armstrong

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The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. – John Redwood

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. – Auguste Comte

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To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind ones own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. – Wilhelm Dilthey

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In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis. – John Wycliffe

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