Quotes about Encounter

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us. Now

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find—Who rather has sought and found us.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met 'em at the boat.

Today there is virtually a consensus... that Jesus came on the scene with an unheard of authority, with the claim of the authority to stand in God's place and speak to us and bring us to salvation. With regard to Jesus there are only two possible modes of behavior: either to believe that in him God encounters us or to nail him to the cross as a blasphemer. Tertium non datur. [There is no third way.]2

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.