Encounters Quotes

We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.

I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them.

You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.