Quotes about Encounter
It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.
- Robert Brault
For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Revelation is a "meeting" between God and the believer whereby God speaks and we hear. The "spoken word" is a metaphor containing two elements: personal encounter and the impartation of knowledge.
- Donald Bloesch
No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself
- Audrey Hepburn
God comes to you disguised as your life.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
have written it as a Bible study about God and His sovereignty, wisdom, and love as they bear upon the adversities we all encounter.
- Jerry Bridges
Whatever the case, Paul could not stand by while church leaders became self-righteous reflections of a priesthood that was disappearing. He refused to do nothing as the dual covenant model laid the groundwork for the very hypocrisy his encounter with Jesus liberated him from.
- Andy Stanley
Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
If Jesus overcame the grave, he's still alive and available for me to personally encounter.
- Lee Strobel
flowers, or our feet from dancing. If you don't meet God along the way, you'll never meet God at the destination. That's the dynamic tension.
- Leonard Sweet