Quotation from "Into the Heart and Mind of God"

"If we have committed our lives tiredly to the Holy Spirit, we must realise that everything that happens to us has a lesson in it. Each of our experiences is intended to teach us something. ... There is a sovereignty over all the ways in the life of a child of God. That does not mean that all our ways are right, but if they are wrong, the Holy Spirit can teach us something. However, the point is that the revelation of Jesus Christ comes very largely through experience. We come to understand the mind of the Lord by experience, and that is one of the Holy Spirit's main methods of revealing Christ." (T. Austin-Sparks, Into the Heart and Mind of God)