#very

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#convinced #every #fundamentalist #gut #i

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#impatient #lifelong #long struggle #sharp #struggle

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#because #christian #clear #confront #difficult

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#around #believe #doing #every #exercises

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#believe #every #finite #finite number #heartbeats

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#bites #get #hard #i #i think

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody. ↗

— Scott Baio

#before #being #everybody #four #hours

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#blessings #bound #certainly #christian #duty

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates? ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#afghanistan #cell #dedicated #dignity #every