Quotes about Encounter

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.

27The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. 28Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[149] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." 29Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

and said, almost without thinking, "Well, of course, Philip, God was already present in the prison. I just had to make him visible." I have often thought of that line from Joanna, which would make a fine mission statement for all of us seeking to know and follow God. God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

When a couple encounters a crisis, it magnifies what's already present in the relationship.

Leaders require courage of the highest order -- always moral courage -- and often physical courage as well. Courage is that quality of mind that enables people to encounter danger or difficulty firmly, without fear or discouragement.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions

It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.

Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?

When we seek God, we see God.