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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 it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Let’s use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people’s stories and histories. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Compassion doesn’t, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Intelligence doesn’t just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people’s hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn’t mean that the clouds part and I see God. That’s a juvenile way of thinking about it. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other’s secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Compassion has to become a discipline. It’s something that you do. It’s no good thinking that you agree with compassion or not, you’ve just got to do it. Just like it’s no good agreeing that it’s possible to float, you just have to get into the pool and then you learn that it’s possible. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech. (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Compassion is not a popular virtue (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
... there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
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 (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
The Hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
I say that religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness (Karen Armstrong Quotes)