Quotes about Encounter

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

God comes to us disguised as our life.

The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.

This voice told him the goal of ministry was to recognize the Lord's voice, his face, and his touch in every person he met.

Gut-wrenching questions honor God. Despair directed at God is a way of encountering him, opening ourselves up to the One and only Someone who can actually do something about our plight. And whether we, like Greg, collide with the Almighty or simply bump up against him, we cannot be the same. We never are when we experience God.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

I've always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn't look her in the eye.

We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.

The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.