Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy!… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious.… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind? — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can… — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
