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Quotes About Encounter

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.
~ Michael Leunig
I have met the devil - he is not!
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.
~ Robin Bertram
You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Why do I always meet women as I'm leaving the dog park with a big bag of poop? And it's always on the day I forgot my dog.
~ Dana Gould
Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'
~ Thomas Kinkade
I first met Rhoda Morgenstern in the spring of 1970.
~ Valerie Harper
I would cry if I met Bruce Springsteen, man. I don't think I'd be able to handle it.
~ Sam Fender
My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
~ Jimmy Iovine
When I was in L.A. in the 80s I got talking to Bruce Springsteen at a dinner party about the Harley-Davidson I'd just bought and he said, 'Do you fancy going for a ride?' No one's going to say no to that are they?
~ Paul Young
The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye.
~ Ron Livingston
I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.
~ John Lydon
I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
It was cool to meet Stan Lee.
~ Ryan Fleck
I was in the eighth standard and was selected as part of my school to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
~ Shriya Pilgaonkar
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
~ Havelock Ellis
The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.
~ Christopher Columbus
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
~ Ben Loory
It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?
~ Brandon Sanderson
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
~ Roland Allen
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
~ Wendell Berry
No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.
~ Dwight L. Moody
An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."
~ Christopher Columbus