Christian Mysticism Quotes

#1. I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

Tony Campolo

#2. Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

Mason Cooley

#3. The threads of logic, intuition, and humanity should be beautifully interwoven through the fabric of our world.

Leta B.

#4. Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#6. We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.

Hans Rookmaaker

#7. I will desist;
... But there is something glows upon my cheek,
And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.

William Shakespeare

#8. Summer was letting out one long, last, sweet breath before winter began to blast.

Elizabeth Cunningham

#9. We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan W. Watts

#11. Christian spirituality does not rest on mysticism; it rests in a Mediator.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. Don't take a question or comment at its face value. Many people say many things as a matter of habit. They may not mean it.

Girdhar Joshi

#13. Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Meat Loaf

#14. If Life is short, then mine is fat and balding also

Josh Stern

#15. The Christian mystic therefore is one for whom God and Christ are not merely objects of belief, but living facts experimentally known first hand; and mysticism for him becomes, in so far as he responds to its demands, a life based on this conscious communion with God

Carl McColman

#16. What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and multiple returns of Christ, but only one decisive coming at the end of the world, which includes the resurrection, the rapture, and his appearance in the sky!

Eli Of Kittim

#17. The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#18. Come on, indulge yourself. You got nothing to lose that won't be lost.

Tennessee Williams

#19. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

David James Duncan

#20. There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough.

Graham Swift