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Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion

Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion

Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion (Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths)

People who ask you if you’ve ever seen a ghost are always people who believe in ghosts. They’re limbering up to tell their own ghost story. These are always remarkably tedious efforts about feeling as if someone had brushed past them but nobody being there. I always think that if you’re lying anyway you should at least make it interesting

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day

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