Religious Experience Quotes

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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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• Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

  William James

  Mean, Men, Solitude

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Thinking, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

  William James

  Insanity, Vision, Facts

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.158, Booklassic

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• It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

  William James

  Christian, Emotional, Differences

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.45, Booklassic

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• Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

  Ernest Renan

  Happiness, Joy, Mind

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• Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

  William James

  Philosophy, Mind, Should

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

  Radhanath Swami

  Religious, Dedication, Giving

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and all of the books we've read and all of our religious experiences and what others have told us and tried to convince us of. But knowing God is when we make conscious contact.

  Wayne Dyer

  Religious, Book, Convince Us

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• Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Religious, Threatening, Priests

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• For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.

  Mircea Eliade

  Religious, Reality, Stones

  Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Religious, Writing, Hopeful

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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• Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Men, Religion

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

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• When you open an Apple product it's like a religious experience.

  Lee Clow

  Religious, Apples, Products

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• I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

  Shelley Winters

  Religious, Retirement, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

  Emily Mortimer

  Religious, Thinking, Theatre

  "Emily Mortimer: 'Secrets are a part of all of our lives'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2010.

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• One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

  Charles Stross

  Religious, Hallucinations, Apes

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.440, Penguin

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• If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Song, Religious

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• Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Religious, Style, Quality

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• The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

  Gwen Raverat

  Dance, Religious, Class

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.210, Clear Press Ltd

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• I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

  Bill Fitch

  Leadership, Sports, Religious

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

  Erma Bombeck

  Religious, Toasters, Next

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• Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about to enter history, and if you want to be a part of it, you will need a change so fundamental that the Gospel of John would later refer to it as a "new birth". Being born again was not meant to be a private religious experience that is hard to communicate. .. but rather the prerequisite for joining a new and very public movement - the Jesus and kingdom of God movement.

  Jim Wallis

  Religious, Jesus, Hands

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• So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

  Mike Mason

  Love, Spiritual, Religious

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• Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are invariably translated into 'Colson's professed religious experience.' I discovered that one major U.S. daily, as a matter of policy, will not print the two words Jesus Christ together; when combined, the editor says, it represents an editorial judgment.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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