Encounter Quotes

716 quotes by 535 authors

Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with… — Fulton J. Sheen
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved… — John Polkinghorne
When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise. — Tom Brokaw
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the… — Martin Buber
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change. — Thomas Merton
Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the… — Vince Lombardi
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be… — Rajneesh
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and… — Carl Jung
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a… — Desmond Morris
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable. — Richard Avedon
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on… — Anais Nin
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively… — Nel Noddings
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein
The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart… — Pope John Paul II
Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves...… — Pope Benedict XVI
I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge,… — Pope Benedict XVI
Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him,… — Pope John Paul II
For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated… — Pope Francis
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it… — Jeff Cooper
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or… — Margaret Mead

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