Quotes About Encounter

There was this guy lying on the couch," Laila recalled. "I had no idea who he was. I just remember thinking, 'Uh-oh.' I had this feeling as if a bomb had dropped. I kind of knew from the second I saw him that I would either love him or hate him.

Columbus says he decided to send "two men up-country" to see what they could see. "They traveled for three days," he wrote, "and found an infinite number of small villages and people without number, but nothing of importance."35 People without number—but nothing of importance. It would become a motto for the ages.

No sooner were the ships unloaded, however, than sickness broke out among the crews. It quickly spread among the natives, who had come to greet the ships with gifts of fish and fruits, "as if we had been their brothers," recalled one of the men on board.

We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.

Natalie and François met on the street. It's always a tricky thing when a man comes up to a woman. She's bound to wonder, Is that what he spends his time doing? Quite often the men are going to claim that it's the first time.

C'est à cet instant précis qu'il la regarde, enfin.

47 Reflexión de un pensador polaco: Hay gente fantástica a la que se conoce en mal momento. Y hay gente que es fantástica porque se la conoce en el momento adecuado.

Según él, era como si una chica te abandonaba y tenías que cruzarte con ella a diario.

Debo confesarle que no estoy aquí por casualidad. Me condujo su mirada. Cuando me lo cruzo en el ascensor, usted tiene una forma extraña de mirarme. Una mirada absolutamente neutra.

The secret place where we encounter God in a truly transformational way is in our inner self. Prayer is meeting God in the darkness and solitude of that secret place. Nothing less than such an encounter with God in the depths of our soul will provide access to the deep knowing of both God and self that is our true home.

The prayer conversation always begins with God. It does not begin with us. Prayer is our response to a divine invitation to encounter. The prayer conversation has already begun because God has already reached out, seeking our attention and response. Until we learn to attend to the God who is already present and communicating, our prayers will never be more than the product of our minds and wills.

Some Christians speak of a personal encounter with Jesus as if this were a one-time matter—something that happens at conversion. This is a tragic confusion of an introduction and a relationship. A first encounter is just that—a first encounter. What God longs for us to experience is intimate knowing that comes by means of an ongoing relationship.

We speak of God because he first spoke to us.

One of the most striking patterns we discovered while researching this book – indeed, one of the patterns that felt most like a genuine breakthrough to us – was how, time and again in human history, that zone of ritual play has also acted as a site of social experimentation – even, in some ways, as an encyclopaedia of social possibilities.

Nella mia mente ti trovi dietro, a destra, sotto l'osso occipitale. Mi sembra che per te sia esattamente la parte opposta (come potremo allora incontrarci?). Negli ultimi giorni, se tocco quel punto, provo dolore, e una grande rabbia contro di te.

Buber, M. (1990) The Way of Man.

had come all this way and this was what I get paid to do. So I went out and found his home and for four hours it all poured out, what had happened in those three days at Chipyongni when he was a young platoon leader. It was if he had been waiting for me to come by for fifty-five years, and he remembered everything as

Instead of appealing to human authorities, institutions, and traditions, an apostolic church challenges people to encounter God for themselves, to search the Scriptures to find truth, and to follow God's ways instead of social expectations.

Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.

A large spear from my right lunged past and almost grazed my back, and stuck firmly into the soil. The two men from whom it came appeared in an opening in the forest only ten yards off and bolted, one looking back over his shoulder as he ran. As they are expert with the spear I don't know how it missed, except that he was too sure of his aim and the good hand of God was upon me.

Given Fanon's subsequent traumatic encounter with the white gaze ('Look, maman, a negro'), it is ironic that it was he and Manville who gazed at the children and could not take their eyes off them. They had never seen a girl with truly red hair, or such a blond boy, and they were fascinated.

I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives

When you come in contact with the anointing of God, it not only affects your moment, it affects your tomorrow.

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.