Quotes by : Karen Armstrong

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut,....

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims....

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation,....

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection....

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence....

Yet the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension....

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)....

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy....

We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his....