Quotes About Divinity

Nothing could persuade me that "in the image of God" applied only to man. In fact it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than men with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism -

Numinous experience elevates and humiliates simultaneously.

There are no longer any gods whom we can invoke to help us. The great religions of the world suffer from increasing anemia, because the helpful numina have fled from the woods, rivers, and mountains, and from animals, and the god-men have disappeared underground into the unconscious. There we fool ourselves that they lead an ignominious existence among the relics of our past.

God is not dead. Now, as ever, he liveth.

nothing is holy any longer.

From time immemorial, men have had ideas about a Supreme Being (one or several) and about the Land of the Hereafter. Only modern man thinks he can do without them.

Równie dobrze mo?na ja?n okreÅ›li? jako ,,Boga w nas

Jung identifies the "Anthropos" ("Primal Man" or "Original Man"), "Christ," and the "Son" with God. The Anthropos begins as part of the unconscious godhead, emerges as an independent ego, eventually forgets his unconscious origin, must be reminded of it by the godhead, and then returns to it to form a unified

So if I say God is good, it is not true: I am good, God is not good. I go further: I am better than God! For only what is good can become better, and only what is better can become the best. God is not good, therefore he cannot become better; and since he cannot become better he cannot become the best. These three: good, better, best, are infinitely remote from God, who is above all.

In our Western civilization the Cosmic Man has been identified to a great extent with Christ, and in the East with Krishna or with Buddha. In the Old Testament this same symbolic figure turns up as the "Son of Man" and in later Jewish mysticism is called Adam Kadmon. Certain religious movements of late antiquity simply called him Anthropos (the Greek word for man). Like all symbols this image points to an unknowable secret—to the ultimate unknown meaning of human existence.

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

it is our most holy number, the perfect embodiment of God's creation: wind, earth, fire, water, and, most important of all, spirit. Everything

I never much cared for religion. I don't think God does, either.

Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever

Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone.

Tanr? sadece nur deÄŸil, bir aÄŸaç yeÅŸerdiÄŸinde açan son çiçektir. Tüm yarat?lanlar?n sonunda varaca?? kurtuluÅŸ noktas? deÄŸildir yaln?zca ya da sadece tüm varl???n eksiksiz ve kusursuz hal? deÄŸildir. Tanr? ayn? zamanda tüm temel belirsizliklerin en çapra??k ve gizli sebepleridir. OlaÄŸanüstü paradokslar? içine alan derin ve psikolojik bir hakikattir.

Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough.

We're all worth it, man," River said with a beatific smile. "We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

Man worships the idols he himself creates. But not those that God has made.

All sin was now accumulated in one place—in him. Divinity

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn't prove there's a loving God; but if there is, isn't it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.