Best Karen Armstrong Sayings
- Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival. Compassion
- There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity. Christianity
- You are your best self when you give yourself away. Best
- Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad… Accurate
- Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then… Altruism
- God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or… All
- Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and… Age
- When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror… Cannot Forget
- Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… Achievement
- When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world. Centre
- After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted… Awful
- At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just… Beginning
- It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. Bald
- A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. End
- Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. Buddhist
- Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. Compassion
- A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and… Beauty
- Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip… Anxious
- Geniuses are not always pleasant people. Always Pleasant
- I had failed to make a gift of myself to God. Failed
- A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… Absurd
- Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the… All
- After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend… Alive
- The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism… Become Embedded
- If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good… Acts
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