Art Quote by Thomas Berry

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the…

— Anonymous

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

— Thubten Yeshe

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

— Albert Einstein

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the…

— Annie Besant

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 kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And…

— Sam Harris

“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

True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by…

— John Cassian

It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role…

— John Walford

“I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the formation of…

— Marcel Proust

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

— Frederick Buechner

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was…

— Igor Stravinsky