Quotes about Experience

There is a world of difference between knowing something to be true in your head and experiencing the reality in your life.

Whenever God reveals His nature in a new way, it is always for a purpose. He created you for a love relationship with Him. When He encounters you, He is allowing you to know Him by experience. Encounters with God are always an expression of God's love for you. Jesus said: "The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him" (John 14:21).

God does not want you to merely gain intellectual knowledge of truth. He wants you to experience His truth. There are things about Jesus you will learn only as you obey Him. Your obedience will then lead to greater revelation and opportunities for service.

Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

When you start very young and you start to work, you're going to fail. That's how you learn.

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.