Quotes by : Karen Armstrong

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was....

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in....

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

Ibn al-Arabi gave this advice:Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you....

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful....

In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a....

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

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things....

In [the] early days, Muslims did not see Islam as a new, exclusive religion but as a continuation of....

Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and....