Want Quotes by Karen Armstrong

10 Want quotes by Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong’s thoughts on what drives us are distilled into ten short statements. It’s a handy primer for anyone interested in her take on the human longing.

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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

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

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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants…

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We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create…

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The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your…

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…

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I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one…

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I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live…

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

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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 very few…

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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 clear that…

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The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

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We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

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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…

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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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“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old…

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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 of our…

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“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without…

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Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something…

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“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…

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“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.”

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