Quotes about Experience
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
- Oswald Chambers
Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.
- Lysa TerKeurst
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
- Brother Lawrence
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
- Martin Luther
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
- JI Packer
Prayer turns theology into experience.
- Timothy Keller
Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.
- Mark Driscoll
Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.
- Charles Spurgeon
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan
In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.
- William Temple
Only an unwillingness to be open and honest can keep us from the conclusion that both reason and experience tell us that what the Bible says about us is true. We are without excuse if we remain in denial.
- William Wilberforce