Quotes about Experience

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.

God gave Adam and Eve that free will and choice. He gave them one warning: eat of any tree that is here, including the wonderful tree of life, but don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…I wish Adam and Eve had thought more about what knowledge meant. Eve saw it as a good thing, to know more. But how do you really know something? You experience it

Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.