Karen Armstrong Quotes

I believe that there is God in all of us.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

God is best known in not knowing him.

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

I've always believed in God, from the time I was very, very young. I always knew there was something with me, not necessarily knowing what to call it.

In L.A., I feel God more than I do in a church.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.