Spiritual Experience Quotes - Page 5

• Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  God, Spiritual, Giving

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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• For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Spiritual, Creativity, Soul

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• We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

  Erica Jong

  Spiritual, Order, Human Experience

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• I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

  Patty Griffin

  Spiritual, Song, Thinking

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• One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Religious, Honesty

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Desire

  Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (2010). “The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O”, p.227, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

  Kate Arrington

  Spiritual, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Religious, Strong

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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• Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Congratulations, Pride

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• Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.

  Fabien Le Coq

  Change, Spiritual, Personality

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• I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed
  beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels
  will watch over your loved ones when satanic forces tempt them, the veil
  will be thin, and great spiritual experiences
  will distill upon this people.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Love Is

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• This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.

  Israel Regardie

  Spiritual, Order, Dawn

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• Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,” I (a) think it’s true and (b) want to ram the car.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Thinking, Car

  Anne Lamott (2014). “Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace”, p.74, Penguin

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• All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void.

  Sri Anirvan

  Spiritual, Soul, Religion

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