Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity. — C. H. Dodd Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. — William James Copy Share Image
“religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;” — Herman Bavinck 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
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
“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
Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
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
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 assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. — Albert Einstein 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
The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history,… — Tommy Lapid 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
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has… — Carl Jung 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
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
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
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but… — Jessicka 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
“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
“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
“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 history of our race and personal religious experience run so closely parallel as to seem to a modern observer almost the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. — William James Copy Share Image
“Religious beliefs are sometimes based not on testimony by others but on religious experiences of the believer.” — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Copy Share Image
