Experience Quote by John Baillie

“Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.”

— Greg L. Bahnsen

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

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of…

— Robert Musil

Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be…

— Andrew Linzey

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

— Ben Nicholson

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching…

— Simon Critchley

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology…

— Ann Douglas

I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have…

— Sally Quinn

I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This…

— Santiago Calatrava

“Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you have a…

— Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate, almost religious…

— Jens Lekman