Christian Experience Quotes

“The Christian experience is not primarily formed by our liturgy, doctrine, or ecclesiology, as important as those might be. We are formed by the dangerous stories of our great hero.”
― Michael Frost, Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture

“The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience within the context of the Church. It is 'a personal history which is imbedded in the greater history of the Church - a spiritual becoming which is incarnate and is lived within the Church's own process of becoming. It is the effort to develop what has been given, to discover what is hidden, the effort to attain to oneself by attaining, though the Church and within her, to the mystery of Christ, the Saviour'.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar

“In the Gospel story we find five great points of special importance; the birth, the life on earth, the death, the resurrection, and the ascension. In these we have what an old writer has called "the process of Jesus Christ;" the process by which He became what He is to-day--our glorified King, and our life. In all this life process we must be made like unto Him.”
― Andrew Murray, The Master's Indwelling

“Paul's aspiration was to know Jesus Christ in a way that was experiential.”
― Henry Hon, ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House