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
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
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
“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
I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole… — Liv Arnesen Copy Share Image
I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what… — Sophie Thatcher 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
“Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything… — Wayne W. Dyer 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a… — Mike Birbiglia 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
Eating matzo ball soup for the first time was akin to a religious experience because of how deeply contemplative it was. It… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
“Individuals are now “spiritual consumers” who will go to a church only if (and as long as) its worship and public speaking… — Timothy J. Keller 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
“There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its… — Judith Shulevitz Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide… — Howard Thurman 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
I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance… — Thomas Metzinger 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
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
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
“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
“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
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