Carl Jung Quotes

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.

Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.