Karen Armstrong

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

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #empathy #immorality #morality #reason

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#family #humanity #life #living #family

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#religion #religion

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#life #death

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bad #cooking #forms #just #religion

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

— Karen Armstrong

#like #poetry #should #takes #theology

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#friends #fundamentalists #includes #states #united

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#britain #century #countries #every #france

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bent #centuries #curb #developed #did

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#how #joyfully #kindly #live #midst