Ifs Quotes by Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of…

— Karen Armstrong

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

— Karen Armstrong

I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives,…

— Karen Armstrong

I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for…

— Karen Armstrong

You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or…

— Karen Armstrong

It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,…

— Karen Armstrong

If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened.…

— Karen Armstrong

If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and…

— 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,…

— Karen Armstrong

Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind…

— Karen Armstrong