personal development on Experience

One simple sentence, from my first pastoral supervisor, has significantly shaped how I seek to discern God’s personal will. Each Wednesday during my first year of congregational ministry, we met to re...

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs ...

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you ...

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you...

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course i...

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the w...

I stepped from Plank to Plank So slow and cautiously The Stars about my Head I felt, About my Feet the Sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch — This gave me that precarious Gait Some call...

It takes fresh experiences, surroundings, and inputs for us to see familiar shadows in a new light.

The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Information alone never leads to transformation. Rather, it is what we experience as real on the inside that transforms us. That is all about the use of the imagination.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys...

This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself.

Experience isn’t the best teacher—evaluated experience is.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering c...

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Experience is overrated. Some people say they have twenty years’ experience, when, in reality, they only have one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.