Cupitt Quotes

#1. It's only a game. It only resolves tiny, insignificant things. Such as who gets validation. Who gets listened to. It allocates power and draws boundaries and turns some people into stars and others into spectators. That's all.

Fredrik Backman

#2. Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

Don Cupitt

#3. Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Rohinton Mistry

#4. A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.

Don Cupitt

#5. The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly.

Don Cupitt

#6. To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

Don Cupitt

#7. The biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

Don Cupitt

#9. Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

Don Cupitt

#10. Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

Gene Luen Yang

#11. Figuring her out was fast becoming an obsession,

Christine Feehan

#12. Capital T truth is dead.

Don Cupitt

#13. Will there be cake?

Anthony Cupitt

#14. Every day, I'll get sent clips via email. I watch them and see if there's something of substance or significance.Some nights are super busy; some nights are quiet.

Chris Pronger

#15. Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

Don Cupitt

#17. To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

Don Cupitt

#18. One has a singularity contained within a region of space-time known as a black hole.

Stephen Hawking

#19. I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening.

Alonzo Bodden

#20. What you hold in your conscious thought, you invite more of it into your life.

Lisa A. Mininni

#21. Scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.

Don Cupitt

#22. Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

Jack Nicholson

#23. No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

A.J. Ayer

#24. The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

Don Cupitt