Quotes about Encounter

Are you the new person drawn toward me?

If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

We have seen how someone else has encountered the word of God, we have even profited by his encounter, but all the same it was his and not ours—and we ourselves have achieved nothing.

God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.

Paul himself says that he was converted to a follower of Jesus because he had personally encountered the resurrected Jesus.12 So we have Jesus' resurrection attested by friend and foe alike, which is very significant.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.

It is the experience of having God look you right in the eye and saying, "I love you! I approve of you!" that is the unshakable ground of our self-worth.

Invite Jesus into each new situation or interaction.

If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.