Quotes about Experience

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.

It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust.

Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives;

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.

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