Quotes About Experience

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

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

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.