Quotes about Myth

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

If you had refused to descend to men, you would have been my distant dream. If you had refused to sow your word, I would love you without hearing it. If you had hesitated and fled from the crucifixion, and I were not saved, I would still love you. If you were a myth, I would leave reality and live with you in a dream.

Taking heaven seriously, then, means taking suffering seriously, now. Not because we've bought into the myth that we can create a utopia given enough time, technology, and good voting choices, but because we have great confidence that God has not abandoned human history and is actively at work within it, taking it somewhere

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.

At present the dominant story, collectively speaking, is scientific, and one aspect of the mind is given credit for advancing human evolution: rational thought. If we pity our forebears for their difficulty in getting past superstition and myth, the future may pity us for glorifying the rational mind and neglecting the whole mind.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.