Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. — William James Copy Share Image
There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity. — C. H. Dodd Copy Share Image
It's Hard to be Proud of BeingJewish When Your Only Religious Experience Was Seeing Exodus — Anonymous 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
Holy fuck Perth! That was a fucking religious experience, therefore I'm going backstage to shit out 27 easter bunnies. LOVE YOU!!! — Joel Zimmerman 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
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
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
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved. — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
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
Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that,… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
“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
Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred… — Marianne Williamson 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
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
“Druidry is a way of life, a Spiritual Path, a philosophy; it engenders religious experience, though whether one could call it a… — Sophie Cornish 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
“Because of A Prayer for Owen Meany, many of my readers assume I am “religious.” I go to church only occasionally—like a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A third reason behind the preservation of doctrine is that Pentecostals have struggled to balance biblical teaching with their religious experience. Committed… — Stanley M. Horton Copy Share Image
“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness," Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. "You're as stupid as it's possible for an… — Charles Stross 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
“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
“When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
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