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God Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
- And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear…
- The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
- "Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
- In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
- We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is…
- Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its…
- The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
- What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.
- There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man,…
- Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are…
- How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So…
- We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with…
- Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
- The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind…
- Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known;…
- God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
- Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the…
- What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the…
- Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our…
- The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as…
- It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
- God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will…
- A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi