Book IX, lines 243–246
The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)
“The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.”
Source: The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology
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Jürgen Moltmann 6
German Reformed theologian 1926Related quotes

“Man is becoming God—that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making.”
Source: The Voice of Destruction (1940), p. 246
Context: Yes, man has to be passed and surpassed. Nietzsche did, it is true, realized something of this, in his way. He went so far as to recognize the superman as a new biological variety. But he was not too sure of it. Man is becoming God—that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making.

“God became man so that man might become God.”
Factus est Deus homo ut homo fieret Deus.
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Sermons
“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.

“To enrich God, man must become poor; that God may be all, man must be nothing.”
The Essence of Christianity (1841)

1840s, Past and Present (1843)