Karen Armstrong Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Sympathy, God

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

• Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Sympathy, Unique, Compassion

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, p.56, Random House

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

  Karen Armstrong

  Men, Compassion, Empathy

  "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life". Book by Karen Armstrong, 2010.

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