God the Bestseller Quotes

“During their personal interview, Exman asked Schweitzer about mysticism. He was particularly interested in how intellectual puzzles that have vexed our ordinary minds for years can be answered “in a flash of illumination, after we had ceased to struggle with our thoughts.” Schweitzer replied, “All deep thinking ends in mysticism,” before arguing that mystical experiences are surprisingly common, by no means confined to “the privilege of a few.”
― Stephen Prothero, God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time – Eugene Exman and the Cultural Quest for Individual Spirituality