“The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It's Hard to be Proud of BeingJewish When Your Only Religious Experience Was Seeing Exodus — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.” — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Copy Share Image
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“it’s not necessarily helpful to talk about poetry as if it were a device to be assembled or a religious experience to… — David Orr Copy Share Image
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“It probably didn't help that we kept being taken on holiday to monasteries. Not many kids there, just monks. Although you do… — Tom McRae Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing abilities of sexuality is to momentarily transcend the borders of Self into something that is no longer… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“some of our colleagues even think that we are in a position to create other universes for ourselves. In other words, first… — Marco Bersanelli Copy Share Image
“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
“Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
“Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am “religious.” I go to church only occasionally—like a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A third reason behind the preservation of doctrine is that Pentecostals have struggled to balance biblical teaching with their religious experience. Committed… — Stanley M. Horton Copy Share Image
“When pursued it becomes clear that this separation between one's self and the Church usually stems from deep unresolved pain or dissatisfaction… — Janet O. Hagberg Copy Share Image
“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness," Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. "You're as stupid as it's possible for an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“He pulled out a thick black volume. "You've never read this, for example." The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible, containing the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“The fears and concerns I'd had earlier about how my journey would affect my children were long gone. I was learning that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you… — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Copy Share Image
Holy fuck Perth! That was a fucking religious experience, therefore I'm going backstage to shit out 27 easter bunnies. LOVE YOU!!! — Joel Zimmerman Copy Share Image
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