Quotes about Experience

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God