Quotes about Experience

Because nobody goes though life without a scar.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Theology isn't really theology for us until we live it.

I can with truth assure you, I heard Bulletts whistle and believe me there was something charming in the sound.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

Language like this, no doubt, seems foolishness and affectation to the world; but the well-instructed Bible reader will see in it the heartfelt experience of all the brightest saints. It is the language of men like Baxter, and Brainerd, and M'Cheyne. It is the same mind that was in the inspired Apostle Paul. Those that have most light and grace are always the humblest men.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.