“Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.”
Clive Bell
“I prefer to stay away from religion matter. Not I am an atheist nor religious, I wouldn't even want to talk about it. Today, many has fallen to rage and vengeance from the opposing minds and foreign way of understanding. Religion isn't an teaching anymore, it just something you fight for because we are hungry and frighten.”
J C A Rowe
“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.”
Edmund Waller
“Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,For in this rapture I shall surely speakThe thing I shall repent.”
William Shakespeare
“And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!”
William S. Gilbert
“The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
““Eyes closed, lost in a rose, my nose finds nirvana. Deep in this silky petaled nest it is no longer a thing on my face. It is the center of the universe.””
Rain Bojangles