Karen Armstrong Quotes

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Karen Armstrong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 14, 1944

Topics

ChangeLearningGodTimeIdeasMore

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Jeanette Winterson

LoveExperienceFocusLove IsBecome

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Jean Paul

MorePleasureVarietySomethingThan

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Anais Nin

LifeBookMeaningPersonIndividual

I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.

Simone Biles

ThinkWorryThingsVirusThanSome

There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something.

Shonda Rhimes

GoodPeopleMeObstaclesThinkYou

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

Matt Bellamy

MusicThinkWeirdDarkEdgeKind

There are many people who are behind whatever I've achieved so far. My dad, Daboo Malik, is my mentor and guiding light who supported and influenced me. Without him, I wouldn't have been able to be what I am today. Besides him, Salman Khan is yet another important person who is my biggest and constant inspiration.

Armaan Malik

TodayLightI AmPeopleMeMentor

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Aurora

MusicListeningInsideOutsideBeing

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Susie Bright

ExperiencePeopleReadingFinding

My favorite movie is 'Dogfight' with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.

Perfume Genius

RiverMovingEndingComplicatedKind

I really believe in prayer.

Shanice Williams

PrayerBelieveReally

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer

WorkTruthPracticeNeverLaboratory

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