#experience

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#christian-living #conflict #experience #growth-in-grace #maturity

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#experience

When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #life #love #world #experience

I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consommé or the coffee, which, of course, is a simple matter of chemistry. The albumin contained in the eggshell has the property of collecting and binding the rubbish that floats in the dark liquid, which can then be removed and discarded in a single reeking clot: a perfect description of the writing process. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #writing-process #experience

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#oppression #silence #voice #experience

I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all. ↗

— Lady Antebellum

#love-hurts #experience

I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#experience

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#excess #inaction #moderation #patience #poison

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#experience #facts #mutton #nonsense #sheep

For the first time in his life he began to experience a kind of true pride. He felt himself, so to speak, taking up space when he walked in the streets; and he wondered whether this was how other people felt all the time, without effort, all the secure people he met in London and Africa. ↗

— V.S. Naipaul

#experience