Quotes About Experience

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

Faith is caught rather than taught.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.

Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

Authentic faith is lived wisdom, exact cognition, direct experience.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

Put faith in one who's had experience.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.

I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'

It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.