Walter Terence Stace - Religious Quotes

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The pure religious consciousness lies in a region which is forever beyond all proof or disproof.

Walter Terence Stace
How is it possible for both naturalism and religion - atheism and theism, if you prefer it - to be but two sides of one truth, is the same as the problem how God can be both being and non-being, as one of the most ancient religious and mystical insights proclaims he is, or how he can be both the Eternal Yes and the Eternal Nay, as Böhme affirmed.

Walter Terence Stace
All religious thought and speech are through and through symbolic. And this fundamental insight is perhaps as old as religion itself.

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The task of thought in our time is to replace the lost religious and metaphysical foundation of morals by a secular and naturalistic foundation.

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It is certainly the case that there can exist an atheistic mysticism, a mystical experience naked and not clothed in any religious garb.

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The true religious doctrine is that the world is to be both denied and not to be denied.

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It is a commonplace that eternity is not an endless prolongation of time, has nothing to do with time. Eternity is a characteristic of the mystical experience. The word eternity doubtless meant originally endlessness of time, which must count, therefore, as its literal meaning. But in its religious and metaphysical use it is a metaphor for the characteristic of the experience. For in that experience time drops away and is no more seen.

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