God Quotes by Karen Armstrong

11 God quotes by Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong’s reflections on the divine are distilled into eleven brief quotes. Though limited in number, they capture her scholarly depth and provide a quick entry point into her nuanced view of faith.

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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a…

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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious…

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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…

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And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an…

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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…

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Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great…

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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and…

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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…

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A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.…

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“Ibn al-Arabi gave this advice: Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you may disbelieve all the rest;…

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“A personalized God can be a mere idol carved in our own image- a projection of our limited needs, fears, and desires.…

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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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