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The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#gospel #grace #jesus-christ #word #experience

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#inspirational #musician #experience

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either. ↗

— Donald Miller

#love #unrequited-love #experience

...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter. ↗

— Charles Yu

#life #memory #time #wisdom #experience

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #inspirational #letting-go #life

You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love #romance #want #experience

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book. ↗

— Erica Jong

#navelgazing #writing #experience

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#love #religion #experience

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#life #experience

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#jesus #love #experience