Alexander Lowen Quotes

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.

I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Don't follow your feeling. Just follow the word.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

Life involves passions, faiths, doubts, and courage.

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?