Quotes about Experience

While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.

Imagine how much needless frustration could be avoided if we learned from each other's life lessons. Mature people develop the habit of extracting lessons from everyday experiences.

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.

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.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

Prayer turns theology into experience.