While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
“If Mystery is the goal and content of all religious experience, then Silence is a necessary means of letting Mystery speak.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“Kaden gave another one of those unexpected barks of humor. “Yeah. And I’m telling you, my sister is a shameless, shameless woman,… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
“In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“William James wrote in The Varieties of Religious Experience that religion “consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at… — Robert A. Johnson 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
“Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way: What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and… — John W. Loftus Copy Share Image
“We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables the person to pay attention to… — Jeannette A. Bakke Copy Share Image
“Distance reminds us that there’s a lot more to the universe than just people—that there’s even a lot more to people than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers,… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which… — Thomas Ligotti 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
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
“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
“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
When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole… — Liv Arnesen Copy Share Image
“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic… — William James Copy Share Image
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate,… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society.… — Sally Quinn 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
“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
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman 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
![“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is…” quote by Howard Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/889/howard-thurman-11976_hard-core_a-strange-necessity-has-been-laid-upon-m_37987.jpg)
![“I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My religious experiences were very different however, [only] involving myself, nature and the universe.” quote by Liv Arnesen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e4b/liv-arnesen-257275_believe_i-know-many-people-who-believe-in-a-god_959924.jpg)
