Quotes about Experience

After a short labor, and without too much pain (I decided that the pain of delivery was overrated), my son was born.

Of Jesus Christ and my relationship to Him and remember that the One who created the universe can do anything. I also have evidence—my own experience—that God can do anything, because He changed me. From age 14, I began to focus on the future. My mother's lessons—and those of several of my teachers—were at last paying off.

Until the antireligion zealots learn the meaning of the word tolerance, we will continue to experience unnecessary strife.

The question is not whether a nation makes mistakes; the question is whether a nation learns from its mistakes, builds on that knowledge it gains over time, and grows in wisdom. Those nations who learn from their mistakes will become wise, while those who repeat the same mistakes over and over again, expecting a different result, are foolish.

I'm convinced that much of the success I have experienced in life is a result of learning from my failures.

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

The thing about life is that, for most folks, it hurts from the start.

We miss one of life's most awesome experiences if we don't see God's Word stand up under our trial. He wants to show us it works. He wants to show us He works! If we stop believing, we will never know the power and faithfulness of God.

The pain will not kill you. It will be a reminder that you are very much alive, engaged, and that you loved with abandon.

The absence of regret makes no guarantee of the absence of pain.

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.