Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Karen Armstrong
- 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.
- The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.
- Surely it’s better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one’s capacity for love to harden.
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged role.
- 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.
- 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 is a British author and commentator on religion. She was born on November 14, 1944, in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England. After joining a convent at the age of 17, she spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, but ultimately left the convent in 1969.
She later went on to earn a degree in literature from St Anne’s College, Oxford. Armstrong is best known for her books on comparative religion, including “A History of God”, “The Battle for God”, and “The Great Transformation”.
Her work focuses on the similarities between the world’s major religions, and she has been praised for her ability to communicate complex religious ideas in an accessible way. Armstrong has received numerous awards for her writing and contributions to religious understanding, including the TED Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, and the National Humanities Medal.
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