Religious experience Quote by Bart Schultz

“William James wrote in The Varieties of Religious Experience that religion “consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our…

— Robert Wright

“In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that is, it…

— Lisa R. Spaar

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

— Ralph Barton Perry

“John, who was transformed into a passionate lover of God, had lost everything he knew in order to come into that which he did…

— James W. Goll

“Imagine that we could revive a well-educated Christian of the fourteenth century. The man would prove to be a total ignoramus, except on matters…

— Sam Harris

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that…

— Howard Mumford Jones

“The greatness of who we are is discovered by how we handle our mistakes. John Paul Jackson”

— Laura Smith

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.”

— William Allen White

“john stuart mill knew several languages, advanced math and read many great books' before he was ten years old. his father taught him. in…

— Megan Boyle

“James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.”

— Mike Jay

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley