Anecdotal-evidence Quote by John W. Loftus

“how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted to completely…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.”

— Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

— Robert Todd Carroll

“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

What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs

— Richard Taylor

“religious leaders have agreed not to disagree and those beliefs for which some of our ancestors would have died they have melted into a…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.”

— Deepak Chopra

When you say religious, a gate goes down in people's minds that have sensitivities to that word - for whatever reason, whatever experience they've…

— Jonathan Roumie

“Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Spirituality is not like a water faucet in that it can be turned off or turned on at will. Some make the fatal error…

— Thomas S. Monson

“Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance…

— John Daniel

“The only people who are completely sure they've heard from God are either clinically insane or under the influence of hallucinogens.”

— Steven Furtick