Judd Apatow Quotes

... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Now, the topic of religion seems much more complex, and I have a more complex relationship with it myself because I love religious music. I often find myself wanting to be in a religious state of mind even though I don't intellectually believe it. I want to go to that place emotionally. So it doesn't feel like something that I really want to debunk in that way. It's just not where my interests lie at the moment.

In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

The only difference between heaven and hell is believing a thought.