[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)
Karen ArmstrongWe want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.
Karen ArmstrongI think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.
Karen Armstrong