Quotes about Experience
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
— Mark Vonnegut
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a
— Martha Washington
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
— Martin Luther
The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.
— Martin Luther
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
— Martin Luther
No great saint lived without errors.
— Martin Luther
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
— Martin Luther
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
— Martin Luther
One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.
— Martin Luther
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.
— Martin Luther
Accordingly, since a good nature and the Holy Spirit were joined, he had to become a distinguished poet, and there is no doubt at all that throughout his governorship he produced many other poems and contrived many other artifices of this kind that are not recorded in this book. But from this one example one can judge what kind of prophet he was, a man of the highest talent and spirit. In addition to these gifts, he had practice and experience in many troubles and vexations.
— Martin Luther