Northrop Frye - God Quotes

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The worst thing we can say about God is that he knows all. The best thing we can say of him is that, on the whole, he tends to keep his knowledge to himself.

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I don t want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics & incorporating of art with the Word of God.

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The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen [Frye's wife] must do better than that.

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I must have God on my own terms, because God on somebody else's terms is an idol.

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You can never get rid of God as long as you continue to use words, because all words are part of the Word.

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Finnegans Wake is a kind of hypnagogic structure, words reverberating on themselves without pointing to objects... This may be the hallucinatory verbal world within which God speaks.

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The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him.

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Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

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The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

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