Quotes About Experience

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

God sent us here to make mistakes

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.

The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.

The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.