” Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn’t necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. “
” Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. “
” Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. “
” Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series, whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. “
” I was a lousy nun. I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t find God. It wasn’t suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people. “
” I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn’t mean that the clouds part and I see God. That’s a juvenile way of thinking about it. “
All 6 Karen Armstrong Quotes about God in picture
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