First Hand Quotes

“God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Knowing the world means having first-hand knowledge about it, which in turn means understanding ‘why the world is what it is’ and ‘why people are what they are’?”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“The essence of faith is to help you realize God’s power at first hand.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“Reading about Istanbul, or looking at pictures, does not prepare you for the experience of walking along the Bosphorus and in winding cobbled streets, smelling the kebab, being invited in by kind strangers to join them for apple tea. Similarly, reading about the rainforest, watching documentaries that are well researched and beautifully shot, does not prepare you for the experience of having toucans fly overhead in the understory, the deep beat of their wings a slow rhythm in the jangled cacophony. The rainforest documentary does not prepare you for the red eye shine of spiders at night, the suction of deep mud on your boots, the deep dark green of it all.

Strangely, it is also true that actually being in the rainforest does not fully prepare you for being in the rainforest, by which I mean, the experience is never the same twice. That is part of why it is so alluring to some of us”
― Heather E. Heying