“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
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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
“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 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
There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity. — C. H. Dodd 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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