Quotes about Experience

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that "a quiet conscience gives you strength!" Yours

Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.

I've gained some insight into human nature since I came here, which is good, but I've had enough for the present.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Don't underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.

I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.

We think we're humans having spiritual experiences, but we're really spirits having human experiences

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Write about your childhoods, I tell them for the umpteenth time. Write about that time in your life when you were so intensely interested in the world, when your powers of observation were at their most acute, when you felt things so deeply. Exploring and understanding your childhood will give you the ability to empathize, and that understanding and empathy will teach you to write with intelligence and insight and compassion.