Quotes about Experience

Maybe I'm growing up, Thomas'. But there were tears in his voice, and he looked younger than he had ever done.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

How can anyone refute another person's personal experience? The answer is, by appealing to the Word of God. The Bible itself teaches that if an experience is not consistent with God's Word, we must reject it, regardless of how impressive the experience may seem (Gal. 1:8). Demons are capable of mimicking authentic spiritual experiences and masquerading as angels of light. Even on its own, the fallen mind is capable of deceiving itself and imagining things.

I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus "with all five senses."

Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer's life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity.

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Knowledge without application eventually becomes boring and unfulfilling

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.