Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their… — Federico Fellini 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
“I found myself all at once on the brink of panic. This, I suddenly felt, was going too far. Too far, even… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had… — Justin Simien 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
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
“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
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
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
“Jung called the quality of eternity or religious power associated with the imaginal numinosity, a term he revived from Rudolf Otto's original… — Sandra Dennis 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
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross 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
If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience.… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Reading a non-fiction book feels like a religious experience that forever moves my mind and shifts my heart toward greater knowledge.” — Rachel V Perry Copy Share Image
“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
“It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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
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
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
