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“bey, the other the scholar, in this world below ... the former with his glove or his fist commands the people, the latter with his knowledge shows the path.”
― Hester Donaldson Jenkins, Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

“When one conception of God has ceased to have meaning or relevance, it has been quietly discarded and replaced by a new theology. A fundamentalist would deny this, since fundamentalism is antihistorical: it believes that Abraham, Moses and the later prophets all experienced their God in exactly the same way as people do today. Yet if we look at our three religions, it becomes clear that there is no objective view of “God”: each generation has to create the image of God that works for it. The same is true of atheism. The statement “I do not believe in God” has meant something slightly different at each period of history. The”
― Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

“Had the notion of God not had this flexibility, it would not have survived to become one of the great human ideas.”
― Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

“Conoscersi è il miglior modo per capirsi— capirsi è il solo modo per amarsi (To know each other is the best way to understand each other–—to understand each other is the only way to love each other.)”
― Benjamin Blech, The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican