Books Quote by Dylan Morrison

“People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.”

— James Rozoff

“I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Religious programming has the power to distort normal, natural and intensely pleasurable behavior into something inconceivably disgusting.”

— Darrel Ray

“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work:”

— C.S. Lewis

“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways,…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

“The belief systems we have about ourselves and about God determine many of our everyday thoughts, which then dictate our emotions.”

— Andrew Farley

“The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

— Georgia Harkness

“Whoever lacks such experience, however, is often at a loss, being unaware that secular learning is of great help when it acts as a…

— Saint Nikodimos

“The very nature of the objective universe turns any spiritual faith and ideals into courageous acts of subjectivity , constantly vulnerable to intellectual negation.”

— Richard Tarnas

“In no way can what the pupil learns, whether from books or industrial training, or from contact with forces and representatives of civilization, be…

— Thomas Lawrence Riggs

“Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to…

— Dr. Amit Abraham

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

— Matthew Arnold