Art Quotes by Karen Armstrong

10 Art quotes by Karen Armstrong

Armstrong sees art as a bridge between the sacred and everyday life. In these few statements she highlights how creative work can echo deeper human longings and cultural narratives.

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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of…

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My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

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Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have…

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If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring…

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“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role…

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We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art,…

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Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be…

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If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become…

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“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful…

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A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone…

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I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few…

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I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the…

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In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that…

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The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

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We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

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If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though…

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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt…

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“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old…

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Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our…

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“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without…

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Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something…

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“all rightly guided religion that submitted wholly to God, refused to worship man-made deities and preached that justice and equality came from the same…

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“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.”

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