Joseph Campbell God Quotations

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

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

The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

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.

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)

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

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

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

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 be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

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.

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