Karen Armstrong Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Giving Up, People

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Part 1: World-renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong talks about today's religious conflicts and how the past can help". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. April 10, 2006.

• Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Unique, Mind, Trying

• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Likes And Dislikes, Identity, Prejudice

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