Faces Quote by Dorothee Solle

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed…

— Edgar Mitchell

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

— Herbert Spencer

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

— Francis Arinze

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

— Karen Armstrong

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

— Huston Smith

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

— George Coyne

Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it…

— Sri Aurobindo

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

— Marion Woodman

“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move beyond the…

— Mary Bray Pipher