Karen Armstrong Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, America, People

• Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Biblical, Hatred

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life”, p.50, Random House

• From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate.

  Karen Armstrong

  Expression, Age, Lasts

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

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