Quotes by Personal Experiences For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. Aiden Wilson Tozer personal-experiences soul heard A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety. Bethenny Frankel personal-experiences anxiety Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience. Bill Johnson personal-experiences concepts Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. Chaka Khan personal-experiences impact The one reality you can't evade is personal experience. David Bentley Hart personal-experiences reality Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience. D.T. Suzuki personal-experiences experience ideas Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience. Francis Collins personal-experiences passion sometimes Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. Gao Xingjian personal-experiences Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience. Lana Del Rey personal-experiences my-own messages Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience. Martin Luther personal-experiences born I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song. Melissa Etheridge songwriters personal-experiences song I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk. Max Lucado personal-experiences milk stories I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. Miranda Lambert personal-experiences bits writing Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. Peg Kehret ordeals personal-experiences real You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience. Richard Bach you-choose personal-experiences school You are the architect of your personal experience. Shirley MacLaine personal-experiences architect The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life. Steve Grand personal-experiences song art I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. Todd Barry personal-experiences type Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated. William Barclay personal-experiences christianity