Depression itself tends to be
a deeply religious experience, but it is an experience of God's resistance to your most pressing personal petitions.
There is
no deeply religious experience, according to our interpretation, which is not miraculous.
Not exact matches
It is my 52 years of
experience that has shown that the so called
deeply religious individuals cause the most problems, have no tolerance, and hate more then any non believer ever could!
Perhaps the Eastern Christian Tradition can provide a way to preserve the material blessings of Western technology and scientific insights without losing the intuitive spiritual wisdom gained earlier when
Religious Traditions
experienced Grace more
deeply by their participation in the natural rhythms of life.
Recognizing that our
religious ideas and feelings are
deeply influenced by early
experiences with need - satisfying adults, he saw accurately that we tend unconsciously to project our need for a perfect parent figure onto the universe as we create our perception of deity.
Over and over Jewish authors say of Shabbat what those who enter
deeply into other
religious practices also say: to
experience its goodness, you must enter its activities.
When I spoke at Wheaton College during a public conversation on Christian and Muslim perspectives on
religious diversity, I was impressed again and again by the students who stood up during the Q&A session and shared
experiences they'd had meeting
deeply religious peers of other traditions.
Many of us have been acculturated to think of
religious experience as something that is
deeply personal and intensely private — something we discover or uncover.
So in affirming solidarity with the poor in Asia / India, an inevitable consequence of the faith in a liberator God is to enter
deeply into the
religious (non-Christian)
experience of the poor.
It's a
deeply disturbing
experience and one that the presence of the very same figure sitting triumphantly in the middle of The King (2006 - 11), an installation positioned on the ground floor of the gallery in front of a group of church pews as if to emphasis its
religious / fetishist status, does little to alleviate.