Felix Frankfurter Quotes

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

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature.

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.

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.

We heard God speak today. God in the flesh. The voice of God.

Do I know there is a God? Some days I don't.

When the Divine descends, you just accommodate.

Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.