Don Cupitt

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

— Don Cupitt

“The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the…

— Don Cupitt

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

— Don Cupitt

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in…

— Don Cupitt

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

— Don Cupitt

A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing…

— Don Cupitt

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in…

— Don Cupitt

Capital T truth is dead.

— Don Cupitt

“For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self,…

— Don Cupitt

Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become…

— Don Cupitt

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in…

— Don Cupitt

“Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that…

— Don Cupitt

Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality…

— Don Cupitt

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

— Don Cupitt

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

— Don Cupitt

“Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts,…

— Don Cupitt