Religious Experience Quotes
53 Religious Experience quotes by 45 unique authors
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So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn…
— Mike Mason
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I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer…
— Bill Fitch
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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
— C.S. Lewis
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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
— Mary Daly
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I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious…
— Sally Quinn
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Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become…
— Frederick Lenz
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Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our…
— Marianne Williamson
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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
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All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at…
— Sally Quinn
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Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
— Ben Nicholson
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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
— Lady Gaga
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
— Emily Mortimer
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be…
— Shelley Winters
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on…
— Erma Bombeck
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
— Albert Einstein
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Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities,…
— Albert Einstein
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and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,…
— Robert Musil
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It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity…
— Douglas Adams
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The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only…
— Graham Hawkes
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I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being…
— Ayad Akhtar
Who Wrote These Religious Experience Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 53 Religious Experience Quotes, led by these top contributors: