Quotes about Experience
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
— Samuel Rutherford
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
— Albert Einstein
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
— Carl Jung
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
— Marianne Williamson
Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.
— Deepak Chopra
The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.
— Peter Marshall
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
— Oswald Chambers
Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.
— Brigham Young
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
— Muhammad Ali