“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
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
It was a religious experience to pick up a gun. I'd never understood the attraction before. But when you're shooting, it's almost… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.” — Gerald L. Clore Copy Share Image
“From being the object of a religious experience and sanctified, poverty became the object of a moral conception that condemned” — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. — William James Copy Share Image
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied… — Anthony Bourdain 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
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
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
“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
“Of course, to speak of the dark night of the soul is anathema to many in the psychiatric field. I was told… — Kathryn Greene-McCreight Copy Share Image
“Why grace? Because some days, it's the only thing we have in common. Because it's the one thing I'm certain is real.… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
“how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really… — Sally Quinn 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
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
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein 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 love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea. — Ben Nicholson 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/quotes/img-quotes/e5c/douglas-adams-122_awe_it-darwin-s-theory-of-evolution-was-a-co_1205615.jpg)
