Skip to content

Learn the lesson of your own pain—learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul—in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Another quote →

Topics

Experience

More quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people.

The History of David Grieve (1891)

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Robert Elsmere (1888)

All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!

Robert Elsmere (1888)

But the mind travels far—and mysteriously—in sleep.

A Writer's Recollections (1918)

All Mary Augusta Ward quotes →

You may also like

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

Lord Byron The Corsair (1814)

A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown Alma Mater (2001)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Augusta Ward (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.