Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. — Desmond Tutu
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. — Gore Vidal
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching… — Neale Donald Walsch
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — Joseph Campbell
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the… — James Joyce
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from… — Dag Hammarskjold
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later… — John Knowles
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and… — Winston Churchill
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed… — Umberto Eco
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,… — William Shakespeare
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded,… — Thomas S. Monson
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure.… — Richard G. Scott
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment… — Paulo Coelho
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual… — Albert Schweitzer
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take… — Italo Calvino
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered… — Paulo Coelho
Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and… — Leonard Nimoy
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Chance encounters are what keep us going. — Haruki Murakami
Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out… — Donita K. Paul

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