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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective (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)
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
The, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
The Deuteronomists had made violence an option in the Judeo Christian religion. It would always be possible to make these scriptures endorse intolerant policies (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
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 made it a thing of beauty (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
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)
There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
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 with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life (Karen Armstrong Quotes)
The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace (Karen Armstrong Quotes)