Quotes about Experience
Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.
- Oswald Chambers
We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
- Oswald Chambers
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
- AW Tozer
It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.
- Teresa of Avila
Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
- Rachel Held Evans
God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
- Adrian Rogers
What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.
- AW Tozer
For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.
- AW Tozer
I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.
- CS Lewis
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
- William James
If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.
- Marianne Williamson
God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.
- Max Lucado