Encounters With Jesus Quotes

#1. Indeed, like so many encounters with Jesus in the Gospel stories, we might go to the Bible looking for answers, but we usually come away with more questions.

Timothy Beal

#2. Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you ... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. Did the
two of you marry again? Please tell me yes. If he is my brother-in-law again, he is less likely
to kill me for what I did."
Bryony looked at her a moment, then leaned in and whispered in her ear. "He won't kill
you. He just wants you committed to an asylum.

Sherry Thomas

#5. When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.

Henry Blackaby

#6. My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

Kat Graham

#7. Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

Cameron Diaz

#8. Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.

Pope Francis

#9. Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.

Pope Francis

#10. 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.

Pope Benedict XVI

#11. See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.

Katharine Jefferts Schori

#12. I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

Greg Maddux

#13. Think about what you have to share that could be of some value to people. Share a handy tip you've discovered while working. Or a link to an interesting article. Mentition a good book you're reading.

Austin Kleon

#14. To be an ambassador for Christ means to invite everyone to a personal encounter with Jesus

Pope Francis

#15. I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them.

Pope Francis

#16. All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.

Pope Francis

#17. We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

Ram Dass

#18. We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.

Pope Francis

#19. What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it ... " The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.

Rob Bell