Quote by Karen Armstrong
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. – Karen Armstrong

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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. – Karen Armstrong

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Faith
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isnt necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. – Karen Armstrong

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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, dont make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasnt death. – Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Death

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. – Hermann Hesse

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Everybody is entertained to death. – Brian Eno

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