Quotes About Experience

Rather than thinking that genuine religious experience is always comforting, the sense that there is one who can see into the very depths of our being can cause us to turn and run from God. Such repulsion and fear arises from the actual experience of God, for to feel naked and ashamed before God presupposes some kind of relation with God.

For Christians it is a happening, an event, that we affirm and respond to, regardless of the ebbs and flows of our abstract theological reflections concerning the source and nature of this happening.

When Pascal wrote of the heart as having reasons that reason does not know, he was referring to a type of knowledge that is foreign to the academic disciplines and different from the type of knowledge we seek in daily life. He was referring to the knowledge of a transformation that could never be placed into words or experience and thus could never be objectified, dissected, and distanced from us.

The Truth in Christianity is not described but experienced. This is not then the affirmation of some objective description concerning Truth but rather describes a relation with the Truth. In other words, Truth is God and having knowledge of the Truth is evidenced, not in a doctrinal system, but in allowing that Truth to be incarnated in one's

In the aftermath of God's happening the true worshiper attempts to paint the most beautiful pictures imaginable to reflect that happening. It is this heartfelt endeavor to paint the most refined and beautiful conceptual images that speaks of God, not the actual descriptions we create

Allow yourself to experience the full weight of your feelings. Allow them without censoring them. Then you can reflect and thoughtfully decide what to do with them. Trust God to come to you through them. This is the first step in the hard work of discipleship.

Is it any wonder that most people live off other people's spirituality rather than taking the time to develop their own direct experience of God? Most Christians talk about prayer but don't pray. Most believe the Bible as the Word of God but have little idea what it says. Our goals for our children differ little from those of "pagans" who do not known God. Like the world, we, too, grade people based on their education, wealth, beauty, and popularity.

Other church leavers include those who remained in the church but simply became inactive. After many years of frustration and disappointment, realizing that the black-and-white presentations of the life of faith did not fit with their life experience, they quit—at least internally.

I ethvert menneskes liv er der områder, som endnu ingen har fulgt dem ind i. Det er ikke-kærlighedens isolerede zoner. Her standser foden. Den stivner i en evig uforløst gebærde,

Nu er troldommen hævet i zonerne for den tidlige stivnen. Fordi nogen går bagved, bliver ensomhed til frihed. De områder, der før på grund af den tidligt manglende kærlighed var forurenede, bliver nu tilgængelige. Selv når der ikke mere går en terapeut bagved, står erfaringen tilbage: 'Det går; jeg går. Jeg ved nu, hvad jeg skal gøre for at leve.

Døde normer kan ikke analyseres væk, men kun gennem den anormale kærlighedserfaring relativeres og gøres tilgængelig for forandringer. På denne måde sker befrielsen af indre trang, som ikke tager sig betalt med døden - en kærlighed, der identificerer sig med det, der vil leve. Og alligevel er det hvert menneskes egen hemmelighed, hvor langt livssvinget rækker.

Sembra che in Germania il tempo non guarisca le ferite, ma uccida il dolore.

Hiring a lobbyist aligned with a powerful politician is more important than hiring a lobbyist with a certain expertise or experience. Hiring a former staff member or family member is better still.

Because we were so smart and we had so much experience. We had it wired. Couldn't miss. Programmers are optimistic. And we have to be because if we weren't optimists we couldn't do this work. Which is why we fall prey to things like second systems, why we can't schedule our projects, why this stuff is so hard.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

Look ... to go through life and call it yours -- your life -- you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'...

Play your first 100 games quickly" is an old proverb that stresses the relative unimportance of victory and defeat while you are learning how to play the game.

When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.

The notion of private ideas had no ground in [prehistoric] emotional experience.... The notion of a private interior in which the subject can close the door behind it, reflect upon and express itself was unknown before the early individualistic turn in antiquity; its propagandists were the men known as sages or philosophers.... who first gave the motif that true thought was only possible as independent thought, as thinking differently from the stupid masses....

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

Sei bitte nicht naiv. Dieses Land ist so alt oder so jung wie alle anderen." "Aber hier habe ich das Gefühl, dass noch alles möglich ist.