Incomprehensible Quote by William O. Douglas

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

— Jonathan Haidt

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 religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with…

— Huston Smith

“Religious beliefs are sometimes based not on testimony by others but on religious experiences of the believer.”

— Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

“There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and allow us…

— Gore Vidal

“Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way: What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they…

— John W. Loftus

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

— Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for…

— Rufus Wainwright

“Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything else means…

— Wayne W. Dyer

I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole if he…

— Liv Arnesen

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that…

— A.J. Ayer

Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to…

— John Burroughs