Quotes about Experience
The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
— Carl Jung
The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.
— Dan Kimball
The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.
— Deepak Chopra
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
— DA Carson
God is only a great imaginative experience.
— DH Lawrence
When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.
— Timothy Keller
Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.
— Oswald Chambers
We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
— Oswald Chambers
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
— AW Tozer
It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.
— Teresa of Avila
Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
— Rachel Held Evans
God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
— Adrian Rogers