Quotes about Experience

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME.

Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

We have sometimes escaped from grave dangers not by any wisdom or foresight of our own, but by the intervention of unforeseen circumstances. So both the revelation of Scripture and our own individual experiences confirm the wisdom and good providence of God. He watches over His people from the earliest moment of their lives. He overrules and guards them through all their blind wanderings and leads them in a way that they know not.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations.

My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.

God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed