Quotes about Encounter

Perhaps even more significant is that here at the same table were two champions of abolition meeting at a time before either had entered the lists on its behalf, as it were.

I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.

We all come to Christ differently. Andrew and John found Jesus through a preacher's message. Simon Peter and Nathanael came to Jesus as the result of the personal efforts of another believer. In the case of Philip, there was no human instrument used by God. He literally met Jesus in the middle of a regular day. It didn't matter what these men were looking for. What they found was Jesus.

We all come to Christ differently. Andrew and John found Jesus through a preacher's message. Simon Peter and Nathanael came to Jesus as the result of the personal efforts of another believer. In the case of Philip, there was no human instrument used by God. He literally met Jesus in the middle of a regular day. It didn't matter what these men were looking for. What they found was Jesus.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.

The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

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.

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself