Joseph Campbell Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

• ‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Faith

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

• All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

• Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Devil

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

• God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Simple, Intellectual

• The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, God

• 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 tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Space

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

• It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.60, New World Library

• 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 universe.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Function

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.28, Anchor

• God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Able, Enjoy

  "The Power of Myth".

• Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Army, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.279, Anchor

• 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 of God.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Reflection, Men

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.31, Anchor

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