Quotes about Experience

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

God lets you go through challenges to give you credibility in a certain area and the ability to help someone else out of a situation that you once were in.

The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Life is full of choices, ma'am. Most we live once, then move on and forget. But others" - he narrowed his eyes - "we live a thousand times over and remember for the rest of our days. What's impostant is knowin' how to tell 'em apart. And then decidin' if you's willin' to pay the price. 'Cause choices...they always come at a price.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.