We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp I learned to believe in men.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Uncontrolled the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Reading about nature is fine but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully he can learn more than what is in books for they speak with the voice of God.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process and you have to go from one level to another.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.