A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“Wine is a new drink,” Dionysus explained. “But it’s more than just a drink. It’s a religious experience!” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really… — Sally Quinn 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
Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you… — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 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
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
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
“Good Lord,” I whisper at my thoughts, barely stifling a shiver. “Kissing me is similar to a religious experience, or so I’ve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful,… — Richard Paul Evans 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
... 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
Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman 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
The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
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