Carl Gustav Jung Quotes on God (7 Quotes)

I could not say that I believe. I know I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that 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. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself

The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the Church as the exclusive and divinely sanctioned earthly instrument of man's redemption. The East (India), however, insists that man is the sole cause of his higher development, for it believes in self- liberation.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.