religious feeling Quotes

Music is my religion.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot to me. I don't really see - I never have seen - why I should have to forfeit that feeling, or hope, of belonging, just because the stories I want to tell are close to my own experience.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

All the motive power in all of these [activist and revolutionary] movements is the instinct of religious feeling.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

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

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.

I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples.

The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

Being religious and spiritual makes me feel good.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious