Quotes about Encounter
Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
How wonderful of [Jesus] to come back undercover, so that even the people who knew him best had to look, then look again, before they got the crawly feeling that they had seen him somewhere before. It was the perfect setup for people who wanted to know what made him different from anyone else they had met: his ability to reflect their humanity back to them, both familiar and strange, so that they never got tired of searching each other's faces for some sign of him.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them. If I am not careful, I can decide that I am really much happier reading my Bible than I am entering into what God is doing in my own time and place, since shutting the book to go outside will involve the very great risk of taking part in stories that are still taking shape.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Do not reject any of My gifts; find Me in every situation.
— Sarah Young
However, there is a better way to be prepared for whatever you will encounter today: Spend quality time with Me.
— Sarah Young
What we are looking for in reading the Bible is the ability to turn the two-dimensional words on paper into a three-dimensional encounter with God, so that the text takes on life and meaning and depth and perspective and gives us direction for what to do today.
— Scot McKnight
Bonhoeffer sketched what would in reality become his own virtue and fate: "But their peace will never be greater than when they encounter
— Scot McKnight
But their peace will never be greater than when they encounter evil people in peace and are willing to suffer from them."48
— Scot McKnight
He arrived, looked me over with a smiling and impudent curiosity; said he had come for me, and informed me that he was a page. Go 'long, I said; you ain't more than a paragraph.
— Mark Twain
Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?
— Mark Twain