Quote by Karen Armstrong
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be a

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. – Karen Armstrong

Other quotes by Karen Armstrong

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. – Karen Armstrong

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Home
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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. – Karen Armstrong

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Failure
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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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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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Islam is a peaceful religion. – Youssou NDour

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We are punished by our sins, not for them. – Elbert Hubbard

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. – William Ralph Inge

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