Karen Armstrong Quotes
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulge...
Show MoreEvery fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some g...
Show MoreWell, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in...
Show MoreYet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional appreh...
Show MoreA theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god...
Show MoreJesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarn...
Show MoreToday we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creeda...
Show MoreFor Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impul...
Show MoreCompassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how impo...
Show MoreThen, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious ener...
Show MoreWe are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn hi...
Show MoreMohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually,...
Show MoreI did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erect...
Show MoreYet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a pr...
Show MoreBy increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His ...
Show MoreIbn al-Arabi gave this advice:Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that yo...
Show MoreWhat seems wrong to you is right for himWhat is poison to one is honey to someone else.Purity and im...
Show MoreIf professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative ...
Show MoreWe are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition...
Show MoreWe need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who be...
Show More...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a p...
Show MoreWe routinely and rightly condemn the terrorism that kills civilians in the name of God but we cannot...
Show MoreWhen they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...
Show MoreMythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It w...
Show MoreBreath control is crucial to most of the contemplative traditions... Qur'anic reciters chant long ph...
Show MoreIn each of the early surahs, God spoke intimately to the individual, often preferring to pose many o...
Show MoreThe new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambi...
Show MoreIn the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become ...
Show MoreIn [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of...
Show MoreUnless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius,...
Show MoreI discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior w...
Show MoreCompassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and...
Show MoreThe constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid ...
Show MoreReligion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing thi...
Show MoreWhen the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen ...
Show MoreIf your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sy...
Show MoreI had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
Of all the great world religions, Christianity should value the body most. After all, it taught that...
Show MoreTheologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosi...
Show MoreCompassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or exper...
Show MoreHumiliate your enemy is dangerous.
Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author m...
Show More[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (...
Show MoreIf it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (...
Show MoreCompassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently...
Show MoreWhen they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...
Show MoreEver since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims...
Show MoreReligious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give ...
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