Quote by: Karen Armstrong

What seems wrong to you is right for him What is poison to one is honey to someone else. Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship, These mean nothing to Me. I am apart from all that. Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another. Hindus do Hindu things. The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do. It's all praise, and it's all right. It's not I that's glorified in acts of worship. It's the worshippers! I don't hear the words they say. I look inside at the humility. That broken-open lowliness is the Reality, not the language! Forget phraseology. I want burning, burning. Be Friends with your burning. Burn up your thinking and your forms of expression!


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Author Bio


  • NameKaren Armstrong
  • Descriptionauthor and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
  • BornNovember 14, 1944
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTheologian; Writer
  • AwardsFour Freedoms Award - Freedom Of Worship