Martin Seligman

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

American Psychologist

Robert Jeffress

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?

American Clergyman

Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

American Author

Karl Philipp Moritz

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

German Author

Joseph Campbell

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Charles Edward Montague

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

English Journalist

Said Nursi

The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

Turkish Theologian

Dave Morris

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

British Author

Jermaine O'Neal

There are only two things that probably can stop me from playing - rapture, God coming back, and an ACL injury.

American Basketball Player

P. J. O'Rourke

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

American Comedian

Use 'rapture' to describe an overwhelming emotion, more intense than just happiness or pleasure.

Emotional Intensity

'Rapture' is a strong word, so it's not suitable for mild enjoyment or contentment.

Not Subtle

In arts and literature, 'rapture' is often associated with blissful experiences or enchantment.

Cultural Resonance

'Rapture' in a religious sense refers to a specific Christian eschatological event, not just any kind of religious transport.

Christian Event

Understand that the religious 'rapture' is associated with the end times and Jesus's return, often discussed in prophecy contexts.

End Times

Among Christians, there are differing beliefs about the rapture, so it is a term that can carry different implications.

Debatable Concept

 yellow in color whereas this guy was very gray and had a blunt nose so that's super cool I haven't seen one of these guys in a long time and it just actually goes to show how warm it is today if we seeing monitor lizards hmm where did you go buddy there you are sir bees rapture the

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 and decided to come back early. And just in case he did, I built a backup plan, by reading the "Left Behind" books that were all the rage at the time. And I found in their pages that if I was not taken in the rapture at midnight, I had another shot.

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 yeah you seem to be trying to create these videos not only to spread this but also to spread oh yeah the one that came like several times and yes yeah I'm really interested in this concept of are its kind of ecstatic rapture you know

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 Next day, one of my nurses smuggled in a snowball for me. She brought it in to the unit. I cannot tell you the rapture I felt holding that in my hand, and the coldness dripping onto my burning skin; the miracle of it all,

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 taking painful contemptuous possession of her, was the kind of rapture she wanted. When they lay together in bed it was, as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded, an act of violence.

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 thank gosh I needed a pick-me-up with one final push yeah Nick will and the camera crew reached the summit that's called rapture has exhilarated it's a beautiful day yeah from here it's

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 the net okay religious mania there's rapture there's weeping there's visions manias can be good manias can be alarming or manias can be deadly the world has a new mania a mania for

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 I'm almost like a crazy evangelical. I've always known that the age of design is upon us, almost like a rapture. If the day is sunny, I think,

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 male nice to see though so that's not the biggest of raptures in the world that will feed on birds largest guinea fowl

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 And that, I think, is a highly privileged rapture. Thank you. Thank you.