Joseph Campbell Quotes

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Space is the stature of God.

There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

God is everywhere, and exists in us, through us, as us.

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

God is not a dead equation!

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

God is not subject to the dimension of time. He dwells in eternity.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.

As human beings, we anthropomorphize way too much. God's not a person. God, for me, is a power that lies outside the definition of time and space.

I'm everywhere; I'm just a soul that's floating around here on earth.

Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.