Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI
The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI
One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event,… — Pope Benedict XVI
For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an… — Pope Benedict XVI
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and… — Mike Krzyzewski
To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand… — Flo Hyman
It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for… — Dannion Brinkley
One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their… — Matthew Kahn
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
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is… — Louis T. Moore
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

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