Giving Quotes by Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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…

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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…

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

“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…

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong