Faith Quote by Max Weber

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition…

— Sam Harris

Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even…

— John Macarthur

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

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

— Quintilian

“Let it be stated clearly that mysticism is an a-rational type of experience, and in some degree common to all men. It is an…

— Paul Brunton

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

— Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

— Bertrand Russell

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— Evelyn Underhill

“The motif of scholastic theology is, “We believe to understand.” The motif in mystical theology is, “We believe to experience.”

— Eric Gimour

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

— Frederick Lenz

“The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and…

— Richard King

Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has,…

— Evelyn Underhill