Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's… — Graham Kendrick Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There are people who, when they encounter inability to understand, do not ask the Lord. But one must immediately say, "Lord, I… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Moses does not encounter the living God at the mall. He finds Him (or is found by Him) somewhere out in the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the… — Beth Anders Copy Share Image
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago… I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
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At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble,… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
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![“Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does one learn to know [Him] ever more, and to love and follow [Him] ever more. May this happen to each one of us.” quote by Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/pope-benedict-xvi-414_closeness_faith-is-above-all-a-personal-intimate-e_149067.jpg)
