Anselm Kiefer Quotes

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

After you get what you want you don't want it.