Quotes about Experience

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.

You know yourselves how slippery is the path of youth—a path on which I have myself fallen, and which you are now traversing not without fear.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

The daily experience of Christ's love is linked to our obedience to Him. It is not that His love is conditioned on our obedience. That would be legalism. But our experience of His love is dependent upon our obedience.

The experience of holiness is not a gift we receive like justification, but something which we are clearly exhorted to work at.

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.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.