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Top 25 Carol P. Christ Quotes (2024 Update)

Carol P. Christ Quote: “The women’s movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.”

1. “The women’s movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.”

2. “Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.”

3. “The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.”

4. “Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.”

5. “In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “The power of the Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is the ground of all being. This intelligent embodied love undergirds every individual being including plants, animals and humans, as we participate in the physical and spiritual process of birth, death and renewal.”

6. “The power of the Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is the ground of all being. This intelligent embodied love undergirds every individual being including plants, animals and humans, as we participate in the physical and spiritual process of birth, death and renewal.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.”

7. “The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women’s lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women’s menstrual cycles.”

8. “Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women’s lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women’s menstrual cycles.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.”

9. “Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “The simple act of telling a woman’s story from a woman’s point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.”

10. “The simple act of telling a woman’s story from a woman’s point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?”

11. “If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.”

12. “Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.”

13. “The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.”

14. “In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.”

15. “Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.”

16. “Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?”

17. “Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.”

18. “Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.”

19. “At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.”

20. “Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.”

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Carol P. Christ Quote: “When the earth is body of Goddess, the radical implications of the image are more fully realized. The female body and the earth, which have been devalued and dominated together, are resacralized. Our understanding of divine power is transformed as it is clearly recognized as present within the finite and changing world. The image of the earth as the body of the Goddess can inspire us to repair the damage that has been done to the earth, to women, and to other beings in dominator cultures.”

21. “When the earth is body of Goddess, the radical implications of the image are more fully realized. The female body and the earth, which have been devalued and dominated together, are resacralized. Our understanding of divine power is transformed as it is clearly recognized as present within the finite and changing world. The image of the earth as the body of the Goddess can inspire us to repair the damage that has been done to the earth, to women, and to other beings in dominator cultures.”

— Carol P. Christ

Carol P. Christ Quote: “Images of the Goddess help to break the hold of “male control” that has shaped our images not only of God, but of all significant power in the universe.”

22. “Images of the Goddess help to break the hold of “male control” that has shaped our images not only of God, but of all significant power in the universe.”

— Carol P. Christ

Carol P. Christ Quote: “To put it simply, for Plato change equals death and decay. Since the body is the location of death and decay, the human body and all bodies were found lacking. Plato found change so problematic that he imagined divine power existing totally apart from the changing world, as we have seen. God not only did not have a body; he was also separate from all bodies. This is the first theological mistake.”

23. “To put it simply, for Plato change equals death and decay. Since the body is the location of death and decay, the human body and all bodies were found lacking. Plato found change so problematic that he imagined divine power existing totally apart from the changing world, as we have seen. God not only did not have a body; he was also separate from all bodies. This is the first theological mistake.”

— Carol P. Christ

Carol P. Christ Quote: “We find in the Goddess a compelling image of female power, a vision of the deep connection of all beings in the web of life, and a call to create peace on earth.”

24. “We find in the Goddess a compelling image of female power, a vision of the deep connection of all beings in the web of life, and a call to create peace on earth.”

— Carol P. Christ

Carol P. Christ Quote: “Without stories there is no articulation of experience.”

25. “Without stories there is no articulation of experience.”

— Carol P. Christ

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