Quotes about Experience
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
— St Bonaventure
To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.
— Teresa of Avila
My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
— George Washington
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
— Watchman Nee
We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
— Henry Ford
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
— Evelyn Underhill
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
— JRR Tolkien
The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.
— Jennifer Lopez
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.
— Watchman Nee
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson