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> [“The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/the-reason-why-jesus-got-into-such-severe-trouble-was-that-he-tried/)

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## More by Don Cupitt

> [To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/to-love-is-to-be-vulnerable-if-god-loves-then-god-is-mortal/)

[Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-cupitt/)

> [“The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/the-reason-why-jesus-got-into-such-severe-trouble-was-that-he-tried/)

[Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-cupitt/)

> [To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/to-say-that-god-is-love-is-in-effect-to-say-simply-that-love-is-god/)

[Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-cupitt/)

> [The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/the-servant-who-really-studies-his-master-gradually-becomes-like-his/)

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> [All life is dying life – including the life of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/all-life-is-dying-life-including-the-life-of-god/)

[Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-cupitt/)

> [A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/a-god-out-there-and-values-out-there-if-they-existed-would-be-utterly/)

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> [I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/i-am-suggesting-that-we-can-and-do-regain-eternity-when-we-are-so/)

[Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-cupitt/)

> [Capital T truth is dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/capital-t-truth-is-dead/)

[Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-cupitt/)

> [“For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/for-it-was-only-via-the-idea-of-god-that-we-were-able-to-develop-all/)

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> [Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/religious-ideas-such-as-the-idea-of-god-have-functioned-as-regulative/)

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> [We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/we-should-be-empty-of-clutching-empty-of-self-empty-of-all-the-old/)

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> [“Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/those-who-first-acquired-language-and-tried-to-think-the-human/)

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> [Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/remember-that-the-past-fifty-years-has-been-the-age-of-the-big-bang/)

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> [A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/a-belief-is-made-religious-not-so-much-by-its-content-as-rather-by/)

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> [Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-cupitt/christmas-is-the-disneyfication-of-christianity/)

[Don Cupitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-cupitt/)

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