I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the… — Bill Fitch Copy Share Image
To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place. — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“A person must be in the religious search not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be… — Gwen Raverat Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“...there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to… — William James Copy Share Image
“We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none… — Bart Schultz Copy Share Image
“I’m fairly certain I’m having my first truly religious experience, and it’s probably a very bad thing that it’s happening in a… — Lisa Desrochers Copy Share Image
It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When I look back upon my own religious experience,” says Andrew Murray, “or round upon the Church of Christ in the world,… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The history of our race and personal religious experience run so closely parallel as to seem to a modern observer almost the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but… — Jessicka Copy Share Image
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body,… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man. It's almost a… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its… — Judith Shulevitz Copy Share Image
“Individuals are now “spiritual consumers” who will go to a church only if (and as long as) its worship and public speaking… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Eating matzo ball soup for the first time was akin to a religious experience because of how deeply contemplative it was. It… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
![“It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd…” quote by Douglas Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e5c/douglas-adams-122_awe_it-darwin-s-theory-of-evolution-was-a-co_1205615.png)
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