Quotes about Experience

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

Believers are discovering the experience of the body of Christ and what it means to gather under the headship of Jesus.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Spontaneous expansion begins with the individual effort of the individual Christian to assist his fellow, when common experience, common difficulties, common toil have first brought the two together.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.