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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."

Karen Armstrong on God

More quotes about God

  • "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

    Abraham Lincoln on God

  • "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

    Mother Teresa on God

  • "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

    Albert Einstein on God

  • "While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

    Maya Angelou on God

  • "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God."

    Lawrence Welk on God

More quotes by Karen Armstrong

  • "We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."

  • "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."

  • "When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too."

  • "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."

  • "Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity."

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