Encounter Quote by Luke Timothy Johnson

Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and…

— Frederick Buechner

“We throw ourselves into the journey and when it's done, even while having learned that all experience involves the loss of something beloved, what…

— Aidan Hartley

The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not…

— Elisabeth Eaves

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly…

— Carl Jung

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

“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would…

— Howard Thurman

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

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

— Ben Nicholson

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

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

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