Believer Quote by Anonymous

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have…

— Sam Harris

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

— Eden Phillpotts

“Now the history of philosophy shows that religious belief which is primarily mystical may very well be compatible with a pronounced sense of reality…

— Max Weber

Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusions that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition…

— Sam Harris

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes…

— Albert Ellis

“The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence,…

— William Harwood

“The topic of disinterested, non-calculating, and purposeless love for the sake of love is central to mysticism as such. To love God, not because…

— Dorothee Soelle

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion…

— C. S. Lewis

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

— William Sloane Coffin