There are some forms of religion that are bad; just as there’s bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

—Karen Armstrong

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About Karen Armstrong

Portrait of Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She attended St Anne's College, Oxford, while in the convent and graduated...

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I find it very difficult to ask God for things in the way that I was taught as a child. Do I believe God is going to take away my illness when he turned an entirely deaf ear to the 6 million Jews who went into the gas chambers?

—Karen Armstrong

I don't think, in our kind of society, we'll be able to develop a full-blown mystical religion or concept of God because we seek instant gratification, fast food, endless talk and noise. The silence in mysticism is alien. People want to do a few courses in mysticism, rather like the way you do French before going on holiday, and emerge a mystic. Mysticism isn't like that.

—Karen Armstrong

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

—Bertrand Russell

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Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision.

—Jenny Colgan in The Bookshop on the Corner

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I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

—John Corey Whaley in Where Things Come Back

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Sometimes the risk of what bad things could happen keeps us from experiencing all the good things life has to offer.

—Vi Keeland in Rebel Heir

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I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day.

—Carsen Taite in Beyond Innocence

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