4 Quotes by Karen Armstrong about keys

  • Author Karen Armstrong
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    Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

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    Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

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    Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

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