Jung carved a Latin inscription above the door of his house in Kusnacht, Switzerland:

“VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.”

In English translation, the inscription reads: “Called or not called, the god will be present.”

In a letter of November 19, 1960, Jung explains the inscription:

By the way, you seek the enigmatic oracle ‘Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit’ in vain in Delphi: it is cut in stone over the door of my house in Kusnacht near Zurich and otherwise found in Erasmus’s collection of Adagia (XVIth cent.).  It is a Delphic oracle though. It says: yes, the god will be on the spot, but in what form and to what purpose? I have put the inscription there to remind my patients and myself: Timor dei initium sapiente [“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”] Here another not less important road begins, not the approach to “Christianity” but to God himself and this seems to be the ultimate question.