Rolando

“The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.”
― Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

“Yet my study of the history of religion has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals. Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus”
― Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

“eminent monotheists in all three faiths—that instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, I should deliberately create a sense of him for myself.”
― Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

“There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.”
― Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam