Encounters Quotes - Page 8

• Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

  John Eldredge

  Men, Brilliant, Figs

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Home, Joy

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• Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

  Bill Johnson

  Divine, Theology, Satisfied

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• We owe the world an encounter with God

  Bill Johnson

  World

  Frank A. DeCenso, Bill Johnson, Randy Clark (2011). “Amazed by the Power of God”, p.10, Destiny Image Publishers

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• American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Bankers, Lucky

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

  Steve Allen

  Swimming, Thinking, Animal

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Veins, Exhausted

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• Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

  Robert Pierce

  Snakes, Rodents, Urban

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• There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?

  John Adams

  Christian, Country, Inspiration

  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (2006). “"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values”

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• Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.

  Francis George

  Law, Ideas, Christ

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

  Tom Gjelten

  Religious, Political, Prejudice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Men, Suggestions, Bars

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.

  James Cromwell

  Horse, Perfect, Sound

  "The Construction Of James Cromwell". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2013.

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• The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Healthy, Information

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spring, Character, Eye

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.

  Ann Burton

  Real, Smell, Feelings

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they'd never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected.

  Joel Achenbach

  Girl, Nice, Female

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• "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Decision, Challenges

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• Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

  John le Carre

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• I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Daughter, Sisterhood, Identity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Distinction, Private Life

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• I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Team, Addiction, Truth Is

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• All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

  Phil Elvrum

  Song, Singing, World

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Quality, Way, Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back to God, we find the peace that comes from appreciating the important things, and we encounter the joy of God’s unexpected gifts. Through daily prayer may our homes become, like the house of Martha and Mary, places where Jesus always finds a warm welcome.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Prayer, Home

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