Quotes by : Karen Armstrong

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

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected....

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

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

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

Of all the great world religions, Christianity should value the body most. After all, it taught that....

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

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery....

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong....

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