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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE - KEY QUOTES
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- 1"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."Galatians 5:22
- 2"No-one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born again."John 3:3
- 3"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."St Paul
(1 Corinthians 13:1) - 4"I must go on boasting." (R.E & Authority)St Paul
(2 Corinthians 12:1) - 5"To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom... healing... a message of knowledge by the means of the same spirit."St Paul
(1 Corinthians 12:8) - 6"... to the subject to be an experience of God (either of his just being there, or doing or bringing about something) or of some other supernatural thing." (Definition of Religious Experience)Richard Swinburne
(The Existence of God, 1973) - 7"If it seems to a subject that X is present, then probably X is present; what one seems to perceive probably is so." (Principle of Credulity)Richard Swinburne
(The Existence of God, 1973) - 8"We usually believe to have occurred what other people tell us that they perceived occurring." (Principle of Testimony)Richard Swinburne
(The Existence of God, 1973) - 9"... an intellectual intuition which is analogous of our intuition of other human persons in so far as firstly, it is mediated by signs and secondly, it terminates in spiritual reality." (Definition of a Religious Experience)Caroline Franks-Davis
(The Evidential Force of Religious Experience, 1999) - 10"There are good grounds for accenting the 'theistic' experiences of numinous and other presences." (Conflicting claims for Religious Experience)Caroline Franks-Davis
(The Evidential Force of Religious Experience, 1999) - 11"They would not want to call this God, but the possibility is there."Caroline Franks-Davis
(The Evidential Force of Religious Experience, 1999) - 12"He shewed me... the quantity of a hazel-nut... I looked thereupon with my eye of understanding..."Julian of Norwich
(Shewings of Divine Love) - 13"I wish I could give a description of at least the smallest part of what I learned, but, when I try to discover a way of doing so, I find it impossible..." (Ineffability)Teresa of Avila
- 14"... serve to illustrate the extreme difficulty of discussing non-empirical concepts solely in terms of the intellect."R.A. Gilbert
(The Elements
of Mysticism, 1991) - 15"... he was caught up in paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which is not lawful for a man to utter." (Ineffability)St Paul (on the road to Damascus)
( ) - 16"It snuffs out Saint Teresa as a hysteric."William James
(The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902) - 17"... not its origin, but the way in which it works as a whole..."William James
(The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902) - 18"Experiences seem to depend on interest, background and expectations of those who have had them rather than anything separate or autonomous." (Religion is fixed to specific religions)Anthony Flew
- 19"He (mankind) feels himself to be a pilgrim of eternity, a creature in time but a citizen of a timeless world."F.C. HAPPOLD
(Mysticism: A
Study and an
Anthology, 1963) - 20"I wish I could give a description of at least the smallest part of what I learned, but, when I try to discover a way of doing so, I find it impossible..."Teresa of Avila
(ineffability) - 21"The Soul Is fully awake as regards God, but wholly asleep as regards things of this world."Teresa of Avila
(ineffability, transiency, passivity) - 22"He shewed me... the quantity of a hazel-nut... I looked thereupon with my eye of understanding..."Julian of Norwich
(Shewings of Divine Love)
(noetic) - 23"... he was caught up in paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which is not lawful for a man to utter."St. Paul
(passivity) - 24"... serve to illustrate the extreme difficulty of discussing non-empirical concepts solely in terms of the intellect."R.A. Gilbert
The Elements
of Mysticism
(1991)
(ineffability) - 25“If you've had such an experience, you may well find yourself believing firmly that it was real. But don't expect the rest of us to take your word for it, especially if we have the slightest familiarity with the brain and its powerful workings.”Richard Dawkins
The Argument From Personal Experience, The God Delusion
(2006) - 26“… somehow the activity of these specific neural circuits is more conducive to religious belief and mystical belief. It makes them more prone to religious belief.”V.S. Ramachandran
'God on the Brain,’ BBC Horizon programme
(2003) - 27“… for some reason our brains have developed specific structures that help us believe in God.”V.S. Ramachandran
'God on the Brain,’ BBC Horizon programme
(2003) - 28"The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.”Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason
(1781) - 29“The innocent, naked, new-born ‘ego’ is a figment of the philosophical imagination.”Nicholas Lash
Easter In Ordinary
(1990) - 30“Without the traditions, cultural and linguistic traditions...”Nicholas Lash
Easter In Ordinary
(1990) - 31“God can indeed be ‘met’ in our experience, but is always as holy mystery that he is met.”Nicholas Lash
Easter In Ordinary
(1990) - 32"Human beings… have more possibilities, more scope for action and discovery.”William James
The Varieties of Religious Experiences
1902 - 33“Our experience, as Christians, is not identical with the experience of other people."Nicholas Lash
Easter In Ordinary
(1990) - 34“Our mother, Christ.”Julian of Norwich
The Revelations of Divine Love - 35—
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