After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
So, we think about God far to easily and that's because of a lot of social, intellectual, and scientific changes that have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion has to become a discipline. It's something that you do. It's no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Illness itself can make you angry, enraged, furious, and it made me angry, enraged, and furious. I don't think it brought me… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to… — 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
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
