Quotes by : Karen Armstrong

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

I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world....

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of....

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

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently....

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

If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers....

Breath control is crucial to most of the contemplative traditions... Qur'anic reciters chant long phrases....

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....