--- title: "12 Ifs Quotes By Karen Armstrong" description: "12 Ifs quotes by Karen Armstrong. Plus more from Karen Armstrong and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/karen-armstrong-1053_art_if-professional-religious-leaders-can-no_1412001.jpg" --- > [ If professional religious leaders can \[no longer\] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-professional-religious-leaders-can-no-longer-instruct-our-artists/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/karen-armstrong-1053_art_if-professional-religious-leaders-can-no_1412001.jpg) > [If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-we-could-view-muhammad-as-we-do-any-other-important-historical/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/karen-armstrong-1053_figures_if-we-could-view-muhammad-as-we-do-any-o_658259.jpg) > [My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/my-greatest-solace-is-my-study-if-i-am-deprived-of-my-study-i-can/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/karen-armstrong-1053_deprived_my-greatest-solace-is-my-study-if-i-am-d_1400763.jpg) > [I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/i-am-continually-trying-to-find-meaning-in-the-world-if-we-cannot/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f54/karen-armstrong-1053_despair_i-am-continually-trying-to-find-meaning_2268318.jpg) > [It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/it-is-people-who-are-violent-rather-than-religions-and-since-we/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9a/karen-armstrong-1053_accepting_it-is-people-who-are-violent-rather-than_1286619.jpg) > [Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/religion-is-not-about-accepting-twenty-impossible-propositions-before-2/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/821/karen-armstrong-1053_accepting_religion-is-not-about-accepting-twenty-i_896980.jpg) > [If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-your-child-dies-or-you-witness-a-terrible-natural-disaster-yes-you/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a5/karen-armstrong-1053_children_if-your-child-dies-or-you-witness-a-terr_1342118.jpg) > [If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-we-try-to-hold-on-to-our-partial-glimpses-of-the-divine-we-cut-it/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/karen-armstrong-1053_cutting_if-we-try-to-hold-on-to-our-partial-glim_201196.jpg) > [If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-we-don-t-manage-to-implement-the-golden-rule-globally-so-that-we/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/karen-armstrong-1053_doubt_if-we-don-t-manage-to-implement-the-gold_65169.jpg) > [I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/i-tremble-for-our-world-where-in-the-smallest-ways-we-find-it/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27e/karen-armstrong-1053_accommodate_i-tremble-for-our-world-where-in-the-sma_1681687.jpg) > [You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/you-have-to-get-into-the-water-and-learn-against-what-seems-to-be-the/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/karen-armstrong-1053_athletics_you-have-to-get-into-the-water-and-learn_792143.jpg) > [Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/religions-have-found-that-if-you-behave-in-a-certain-way-if-you-sort/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/karen-armstrong-1053_ability_religions-have-found-that-if-you-behave_588147.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-it-is-written-and-read-with-serious-attention-a-novel-like-a-myth/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/a-gentleman-is-not-born-but-crafted-he-had-to-work-on-himself-in-the/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/i-was-a-lousy-nun-i-couldn-t-do-it-i-couldn-t-find-god-it-wasn-t/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/i-have-become-convinced-through-my-studies-that-the-only-way-to/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/in-the-past-some-of-the-most-influential-jewish-christian-and-muslim/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) > [The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/the-great-task-of-our-time-is-to-build-a-global-society-where-people/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/we-want-to-create-never-mind-the-leaders-or-the-bishops-or-chief/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-we-don-t-manage-to-implement-the-golden-rule-globally-so-that-we/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/after-i-left-the-convent-for-15-years-i-was-worn-out-with-religion-i/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/as-we-have-seen-so-many-of-the-things-we-once-took-for-granted-have/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/yet-a-personal-god-can-become-a-grave-liability-he-can-be-a-mere-idol/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/i-discovered-that-i-felt-at-home-and-alive-in-the-silence-which/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/each-of-the-world-religions-has-its-own-particular-genius-its-own/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/all-rightly-guided-religion-that-submitted-wholly-to-god-refused-to/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) > [“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/advocates-of-evolutionary-theory-since-thomas-h-huxley-1825-95-have/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/karen-armstrong/#itemlist", "name": "12 Ifs Quotes By Karen Armstrong", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karen Armstrong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-professional-religious-leaders-can-no-longer-instruct-our-artists/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/karen-armstrong-1053_art_if-professional-religious-leaders-can-no_1412001.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/karen-armstrong-1053_art_if-professional-religious-leaders-can-no_1412001.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/karen-armstrong-1053_art_if-professional-religious-leaders-can-no_1412001.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps…” — Karen Armstrong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karen Armstrong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-we-could-view-muhammad-as-we-do-any-other-important-historical/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/karen-armstrong-1053_figures_if-we-could-view-muhammad-as-we-do-any-o_658259.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/karen-armstrong-1053_figures_if-we-could-view-muhammad-as-we-do-any-o_658259.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/karen-armstrong-1053_figures_if-we-could-view-muhammad-as-we-do-any-o_658259.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be…” — Karen Armstrong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My greatest solace is my study. 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Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karen Armstrong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-we-try-to-hold-on-to-our-partial-glimpses-of-the-divine-we-cut-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/karen-armstrong-1053_cutting_if-we-try-to-hold-on-to-our-partial-glim_201196.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/karen-armstrong-1053_cutting_if-we-try-to-hold-on-to-our-partial-glim_201196.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d21/karen-armstrong-1053_cutting_if-we-try-to-hold-on-to-our-partial-glim_201196.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our…” — Karen Armstrong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karen Armstrong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-we-don-t-manage-to-implement-the-golden-rule-globally-so-that-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/karen-armstrong-1053_doubt_if-we-don-t-manage-to-implement-the-gold_65169.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/karen-armstrong-1053_doubt_if-we-don-t-manage-to-implement-the-gold_65169.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/karen-armstrong-1053_doubt_if-we-don-t-manage-to-implement-the-gold_65169.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever…” — Karen Armstrong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? 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