Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
