Here's the quote recited by Armstrong:
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the omniscient and the omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for he says in the Koran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.Ibn Arabi, twelfth-thirteenth century Sufi mystic
To which we might add:
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamott
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