William O. Douglas Quotes

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.