Religious Experiences Quotes

#1. Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with ... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences ... it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.

Huston Smith

#2. 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

#3. Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

William O. Douglas

#4. There's a part of the human brain, the temporal lobe, that is associated with religious experiences as well as with epilepsy.

Ken MacLeod

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

Jonathan Haidt

#6. My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.

Rufus Wainwright

#7. I know many people who believe in God, and I expected to find Him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My religious experiences were very different however, [only] involving myself, nature and the universe.

Liv Arnesen

#8. No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it.

Veronica Roth

#9. As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

Albert Einstein

#10. The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

M. Russell Ballard

#11. Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.

Sarah Churchwell

#12. If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us, and this alone will be the cause of our deep fulfillment and happiness.

Matthew Kelly

#13. I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

#14. A supremely religious man or woman is one who believes deeply and consistently in the veracity of his highest experiences. He has his hours in the cellar ... but he believes in the truth of the hours he spends upstairs.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#15. In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

Warren G. Harding

#16. My love for him was -- Tyranny.

Samantha Hunt

#17. If you don't know where you are going, you will surely arrive there.

Ann D. Clark

#18. Everything that God puts in our life is a lesson, even the bad experiences. Learn from them, adjust your direction, grow and move on.

Claudia McCants

#19. The function of the church for both young and old is not to give us on Sundays certain kinds of experiences different from experiences of the every day. The function of the church is rather to teach us how to put religious and ethical qualities into all kinds of experiences.

Sophia Lyon Fahs

#20. I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences.

John Paul Warren

#21. It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she'd done this before and already she longed to do it again.

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

Kylie Bax

#23. If you have a pulse, you have a purpose!

Rich Wilkerson Jr.

#24. I think these drugs could just as well be called Durkheimogens, given their unique (though unreliable) ability to shut down the self and give people experiences they later describe as "religious" or

Jonathan Haidt

#25. All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. Israel is a very young country, a cultural melting pot, and unlike the structured life of the Orthodox Jews, I grew up in a non-religious part of society where people were totally open to new experiences on many levels. I learned that when things are missing, you invent them.

Noma Bar

#27. We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

Akira Mori

#28. The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

John Charles Polanyi

#29. Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

Erich Fromm

#30. Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.

Aldous Huxley

#31. I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that,

Adam Levine

#32. Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

Sam Yagan

#33. Love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

Robert Musil

#34. When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

Louis C.K.

#35. The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

Neale Donald Walsch