Holy Experience Quotes

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.

It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.