Religious Experience Quotes

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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

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.

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

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.

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.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

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

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

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

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

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

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.

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

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

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

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

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

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.

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.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind