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

Psychologically speaking, all states, whether their content is religious or non-religious, are organically determined.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

It puts you in a place, ... You might call it the most religious experience you could ever have. You're out there with God.

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.