Quotes about Experience

Monastic people have long known--and I've experienced it in a small way myself--that the communal reciting, chanting, and singing of the psalms brings a unique sense of wholeness and order to their day, and even establishes the rhythm of their lives.

Faith simply is, and what the religious traditions of the world do is to give us guidance as to how to interpret our own experience in the light of what our ancestors have made of it over the centuries.

We can't even begin to know God through our emotions or our physical senses. We should be emotional about the things of God.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.