Religion Quotes by Carl Jung

All neurotics seek the religious

— Carl Jung

The unconscious psyche believes in life after death

— Carl Jung

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

— Carl Jung

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit

— Carl Jung

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

— Carl Jung

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.

— Carl Jung

Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

— Carl Jung

“Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.”

— Carl Jung

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

— Carl Jung

“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.”

— Carl Jung

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

— Carl Jung

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

— Carl Jung

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet…

— Carl Jung

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures…

— Carl Jung

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder,…

— Carl Jung

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products…

— Carl Jung

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

— Carl Jung

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has…

— Carl Jung

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in…

— Carl Jung

However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own…

— Carl Jung

Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no…

— Carl Jung

The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has…

— Carl Jung

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit…

— Carl Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and…

— Carl Jung

It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone…

— Carl Jung

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.…

— Carl Jung

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a…

— Carl Jung

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious…

— Carl Jung

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up…

— Carl Jung

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

— Carl Jung

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

— Carl Jung

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

— Carl Jung

The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me.

— Carl Jung

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

— Carl Jung

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

— Carl Jung

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole,…

— Carl Jung

The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

— Carl Jung

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from…

— Carl Jung

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity,…

— Carl Jung

The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the…

— Carl Jung