Quotes about Experience
In everything we do or experience we should have a happy heart and know that for Christ's sake we are in grace and that everything we do pleases God, even the fact that out of the needs of the body we eat and drink and do our work.
— Martin Luther
The gospel is a powerful word, but it cannot do its work without trials. No one will discover its power unless they experience it. The gospel can show its power only where there is a cross and where there is suffering.
— Martin Luther
That's why God imposes the cross on all believers. He wants us to experience and demonstrate God's power.
— Martin Luther
The doers are much more enlightened in faith than the speculative, as even the philosopher says in his Metaphysics,75 that an experienced person acts more surely.
— Martin Luther
Experience teaches how amazingly the ungodly and wicked tremble in lightning, pestilence, or other exigency of death, when the righteous, on the other hand, endure everything unafraid and calm.
— Martin Luther
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
— Mary Baker Eddy
In love, the past is not important, but the present. Experience is more relevant than the pain you went through. The only thing that will make it stronger is forgiveness and not the retorting of sin.
— Anonymous
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
— Marilyn Monroe
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.
— Graham Greene
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
— Francis de Sales
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
— Anonymous