Quotes About Experience

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

I was always the one at school nobody fancied and I've only ever had one proper relationship.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.