Quotes About Experience

If we desire to experience the totality of fellowship with Christ, we must expect to experience the fellowship of His sufferings.

But even here we must be careful that we are not seeking to satisfy our souls by finding some spiritual "good" in the adversity. Rather we must trust God that He is working in the experience for our good, even when we see no beneficial results. We must learn to trust God when He doesn't tell us why, when we don't understand what He is doing.

To experience His fellowship in suffering we must do as the apostles did: rejoice because we have been counted worthy to suffer for His name (see Acts 5:41).

Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.

We are in the transportation business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

Write what you know? No. Write what you can imagine. After all, imagining is knowing—a special kind of knowing that can reveal as much or more truth than our real experience.

stories aren't ideas. They're not concepts or definitions. They're experience.

A complete story is the most fulfilling, because it has the shape of our most meaningful experience. Whether

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

The experience of war never quite leaves a young man or woman. A great many are utterly destroyed by it. All are indelibly and subtly marked by it, because, for good or evil, the memory never quite leaves any of us." Col.

We often feel that passion to know Christ in all of His fullness and to experience the power of the resurrected life but stop short of embracing His sufferings. But you can't have one without the other.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

When I was a kid, I could taste the difference between different colored M&Ms. I thought the red was heartier, more of a main course M&M. And the light brown was a mellower, kind of after-dinner M.

Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.