There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity. — C. H. Dodd Copy Share Image
“religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. — William James Copy Share Image
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like..." "A religious experience?" "Exactly! It's like going to church...” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.” — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back,… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions..… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading… — J.E Allen Copy Share Image
Whether any surfer wants to admit it or not, I think we've all had moments like looking at nice waves coming through… — Gerry Lopez Copy Share Image
“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be… — Adam Miller Copy Share Image
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“The apostles are not offering people a new religious experience, though that will come as well. They are not telling them that… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“Jung called the quality of eternity or religious power associated with the imaginal numinosity, a term he revived from Rudolf Otto's original… — Sandra Dennis Copy Share Image
“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
“I found myself all at once on the brink of panic. This, I suddenly felt, was going too far. Too far, even… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
