Karen Armstrong Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

  Karen Armstrong

  Light, West, East

• From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Islam, World

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

• I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.

  Karen Armstrong

  Writing, World, Safe

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

  Karen Armstrong

  Failing, Tradition, Purity

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show". www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

• I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Religious, Eye

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

• The study of the traditions doesn't necessarily make you want to convert to another tradition, but it helps you to see your own differently and expands your outlook.

  Karen Armstrong

  Want, Helping, Study

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

• God is not good, or wise, or intelligent anyway that we know. So, people like Maimonides in the Jewish tradition, Eboncina in the Muslim tradition, Thomas Aquinas in the Christian tradition, insisted that we couldn't even say that God existed because our concept of existence is far too limited and they would have been horrified by the ease with which we talk about God today.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Wise, Intelligent

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

• Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Criticism, Middle East

  "A question of faith" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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