Modern man Quote by Mark Lilla

Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires -…

— Sigmund Freud

“God, or to put it better, our idea of God, is a concept before anything else. The way God had been (mainly) understood throughout…

— Dejan Stojanovic

God became man, that we might be gods.

— Irenaeus of Lyons

“We become gods when we realise that a part of the universal divinity lives within us;”

— Amish Tripathi

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

— Clement of Alexandria

God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not…

— Terence E. Fretheim

God became man so that man might become a god.

— Anonymous

“The beautiful way that God made us includes the ability to take in new information and to change. Even God himself is endlessly creative…

— Holley Gerth

“Whether we realize it or not, we’re all destined for change. We will all transform into something as we live our lives. But who…

— Kendra Norman

“Such was, and is, and will be the nature of the universe, and it isn’t possible that things should come into being in any…

— Epictetus

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the…

— John Burroughs