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Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.
Bill Johnson
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Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
D.T. Suzuki
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Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.
Peg Kehret
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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
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You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.
Richard Bach
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Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.
Lana Del Rey
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Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Martin Luther
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
Melissa Etheridge
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Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.
Chaka Khan
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I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.
Max Lucado
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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
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I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.
Miranda Lambert
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Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
Gao Xingjian
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I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.
Todd Barry
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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
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Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
Francis Collins