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• All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Real, Soul

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

  Sally Quinn

  Funny, Religious, Party

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Religious, Fun

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• 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.

  Sally Quinn

  Mother, Religious, Father

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Reading, Reality

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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

  Joseph Barbera

  Religious, Religion, Majesty

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

  Mary Daly

  Religious, Work, Substitutes

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• Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. The purpose of the religious experience is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery. In its presence, we are warmed and ignited. When too far from the blaze, we are cold and spiritually lifeless. We are less than human without that heat. Our connection to God is life itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Religious, Eye, Journey

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.33, Random House

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

  Ben Nicholson

  Religious, Ideas, Painting

  Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson”

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• When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.

  Andrew Linzey

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• 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.

  John Leguizamo

  Religious, Thinking, Done

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

  Rene Dubos

  Religious, Religion, Essentials

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• 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.

  Graham Hawkes

  Religious, Justice, Darkness

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• Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

  John Baillie

  Religious, Names

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• There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

  C. H. Dodd

  Religious, Real, Doe

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

  Diane Ackerman

  Religious, May, Threat

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.106, Vintage

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• 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.

  Michael Jackson

  Religious, Different, Shows

  "Children 'saved me,' Michael Jackson said". "Dateline" with Rabbi Shmuley, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

  Federico Fellini

  Religious, Real, Men

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• I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Religious, Thinking, America

  "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.

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• ... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.

  William James

  Religious, Unions, Belief

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.468, Library of America

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• If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Religious, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Men, Today

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• 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

  Religious, Real, Believe

  "United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 24, 1944.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Religion

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Judging, Would Be

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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