Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Edgar Mitchell

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

Aldous Huxley

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

John Stott

...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

Thomas Merton

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

Tom Stoppard

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

William James

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

David Douglass

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

Deepika Padukone

I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.

Deb Caletti

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

Dido Armstrong

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

Charles Darwin

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Blake Mycoskie

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Chris Crutcher

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Alexandra Roach

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

David Brainerd

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Al Franken

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Charles Kingsley

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

Blake Lively

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

Bill Hybels

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

Lord Mansfield

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Auguste Comte

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Augustus Hare

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.