#personal experience

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

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#damaging #die #enemy #experience #harmful

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. ↗

— Roland Allen

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#among #church #clergy #close #difficulties

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. ↗

— Diana Krall

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#combination #creeps #experience #how #imagination