Quotes About Encounter

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

I want to meet my God awake.

I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.

God will meet us and help us.

I had such an intense relationship to every person. I still see people on the street and we lock eyes, and say "Oh my god!" and we just kiss and stay like that and sometimes cry.

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.