Quotes about Encounter

Lord, the range of Thy power, the touch of Thy grace, the breathing of Thy Spirit, how I long for these to bring me face to face with Thee; Lord, by Thy grace cause me to appear before Thee.

For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

As the Trappist monk Thomas Merton says: 'God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.

God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.

Christians read the Bible not as a document from history but as a world into which they enter so that God may meet them there.

Christians read the Bible not as a document from history but as a world into which they enter so that God may meet them there.

Our experiences of God matter—those sacred moments that defy the very rational capabilities we are so keen to rely on.

followers of Jesus always have and always will meet Jesus and see him from where they are and they will experience Jesus differently as a result.

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.