Quotes about Ecstasy
heaven is a place of unparalleled and indescribable joy
— John Piper
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
— John Milton
The New Age operates on the epistemology of ecstasy.
— James Sire
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving..toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
— John Milton
A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved— God—without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, to the full-voiced choir below, in service high, and anthems clear as may, with sweetness, through mine ear dissolve me into ecstasies, and bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
— John Milton
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel
— Oscar Wilde
Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment
— Victor Hugo
Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise
— Teresa of Avila
Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.
— Paulo Coelho