Karen Armstrong Quotes

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.

What is the origin of God?

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

As human beings, we anthropomorphize way too much. God's not a person. God, for me, is a power that lies outside the definition of time and space.

I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?