Quotes About Experience

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

A moment of insight from God is worth more than a lifetime of experience.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.