Top 100 God Encounter Quotes
#1. We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible's single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.
Jonathan Sacks
#2. Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
Timothy Keller
#3. Nanak's encounter of God and God's court was in fact a profound hallucinatory Near-Death Experience caused by drowning that strengthened his pre-conceived notion of a rational, compassionate and unorthodox society.
Abhijit Naskar
#4. Every encounter you have is a Divine encounter ordained by God.
Jonah Books
#5. A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.
Robin Bertram
#6. It was the single best sexual encounter I've ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, 'Oh my God, you're banging the girl of your dreams and you're watching it right now.'
Pete Wentz
#7. Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
Timothy Keller
#8. We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.
Charles R. Swindoll
#9. Deep things are revealed to you in every encounter with God
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Wherever you encounter domination, you can be sure that it is satanic. That is not how God rules people.
Derek Prince
#11. The Law has become a person. When we encounter Jesus, we feed on the living God himself, so to speak; we truly eat "bread from heaven.
Pope Benedict XVI
#12. Your life is not so complicated. God has already written the script, casted the key players. It is when we try to re-write the plot that we encounter unnecessary drama. Accept the role God has chosen you to play. Faith in his direction will assure an Oscar worthy performance!
Carlos Wallace
#13. Spirituality is not something that comes through one encounter with God. It is the result of choosing the way of self denial and doing God's will consistently day after day, week after week and year after year.
Zac Poonen
#14. Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter.
Linda Boone
#15. It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.
Kevin DeYoung
#16. What makes the Bible utterly unlike any other book - religious or otherwise - is the unsurpassed grace we encounter in its pages. We need Scripture because without it we cannot know the love of God.
Kevin DeYoung
#17. I would have thought that a book that begins "Dear God" would immediately have been identified as a book about the desire to encounter, to hear from, the Ultimate Ancestor. Perhaps it is a sign of our times that this was infrequently the case.
Alice Walker
#18. To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? ... They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.
Sheri S. Tepper
#19. God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
Karl Barth
#21. We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.
William Gilmore Simms
#22. No one preached to me ... No one had to ... I wouldn't have listened anyway. I became a believer from a direct encounter with an answered prayer. I came face to face with God and all his power in a tiny bathroom in Washington.
Jacci Mendelsohn
#23. Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#24. There's no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.
Larry Crabb
#25. When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.
Nancy Pearcey
#26. Barth (or Barthianism134) believed that the Scriptures are not the word of God, per se, but merely a witness to the word of God (Jesus Christ).135 Revelation is not a propositional statement about God; rather it is an event (Ereignis), an encounter, something that "happens" to an individual.
Michael J. Kruger
#27. As we become more mature in faith, learning to trust that God is capable of all things, we will see God as bigger and bigger every time we encounter Him.
Tracie Miles
#28. And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).
Kola Boof
#29. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
Brennan Manning
#30. Jesus died! He chose the most grueling death to bring you to God! Everything is changed! You and I were destined for a horrifying encounter with God - we were "objects of wrath" (Eph. 2:3) - but that has all changed! Death no longer scares me! I can't wait to die! Thank you Jesus!!!
Francis Chan
#31. When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.
Eric Ludy
#32. practice has become a real oasis in a chaotic week. It's when we invite the Holy Spirit to fill us again so we can get up on Sunday and sing in a way that leads people into a deeply personal encounter with God.
Carol Cymbala
#33. Villains are not born - they are made. And in the case of a Villainess, she is crafted and carved out of the fires of a broken heart and God help the man who thinks to trespass, bruise her further and then survive the encounter.
Renee Bernard
#34. To have an encounter with God is to feel the ache of his loving heart for the redemptions of the earth
Sunday Adelaja
#35. 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
#36. Father Alexander Schmemann is an Orthodox scholar who wrote a book called For the Life of the World. He says the liturgy is a journey that proceeds from the kingdom of this world into a brief encounter with the kingdom of God, and then back out again to bear witness to it.
Ian Morgan Cron
#37. Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.
Pope Francis
#38. You may encounter unexpected circumstance. Don't be discouraged. God is greater than any condition.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#39. Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose.
Bill Johnson
#40. If on your journey you should encounter GOD, GOD will be cut
Hattori Hanzo
#41. The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.
Pope Francis
#42. Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.
Pope Francis
#43. Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories of community to abide, and the believer returns from the abyss of ecstasy with the self enhanced and otherness devalued.
Harold Bloom
#44. 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
#45. You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter.
Wayne Dyer
#46. With every fresh encounter with God your pursuit becomes understandable
Sunday Adelaja
#47. Everything we encounter in life is an opportunity to choose God and in turn become more like Him in the process. Quick contentment fixes are corner cutters; when we cut the corner and cut the process, we miss what God wants to do.
Joshua Stannard
#48. Hinduism advises such people not to try to think of God as the supreme instance of abstractions like being or consciousness, and instead to think of God as the archetype of the noblest reality they encounter in the natural world.
Huston Smith
#49. If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians
all sinners ourselves
treat as equals the people we encounter in our lives?
Justin Lee
#50. God doesn't offer his Word as a magic fix-all pill that we can ingest and feel better. Rather, God's Word is the way in which we are invited to encounter the real 'person' of God.
Ken Gire
#51. Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
Francis Chan
#52. 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 things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.
Pope Francis
#54. God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
Amelie Nothomb
#55. I want to stop writing, stare you in the face, and scream: Jesus died! He chose the most grueling death to bring you to God! Everything is changed! You and I were destined for a horrifying encounter with God - we were "objects of wrath" (Eph. 2:3) - but that has all changed! Death
Francis Chan
#56. I am convinced that without a gutlevel experience of our profound spiritual emptiness, it is not possible to encounter the living God.
Brennan Manning
#57. We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even ... Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
Victor J. Stenger
#58. Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.
Ted Dekker
#63. You will encounter disappointments in your ministry, in yourself, and even in God Himself but remember that all these are intrigues of the devil
Sunday Adelaja
#64. What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter
Tony Campolo
#65. 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
#67. We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#68. With every new encounter with God your vision becomes clearer and sharper
Sunday Adelaja
#69. We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#70. Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
Catherine Marshall
#71. After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#72. Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.
Jim George
#73. Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?
Barbara Brown Taylor
#74. Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#75. We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.
Pope Benedict XVI
#76. When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.
Michael S. Horton
#77. God is a wild man ... should you encounter him ... hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.
Rich Mullins
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Most accounts of mystical experiences ... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "living" or alive, as in "living God." But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize? Does it reproduce - an option that monotheism would seem to foreclose?
Barbara Ehrenreich
#81. Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.
David Bentley Hart
#82. The Church does not exist to condemn people but to bring about an encounter with the visceral love of God's mercy.
Pope Francis
#83. Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.
Becky Fischer
#84. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing (James 1:2-4).
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Charles F. Stanley
#86. Those who would glorify their God must expect to encounter many trials. No one can be esteemed before the Lord without many conflicts. If,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#87. Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#88. Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.
Hadewijch
#89. If there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#90. The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.
Rosemary Radford Ruether
#91. We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.
Pope Paul VI
#92. A real encounter with the living God changes everything. First, it magnifies the Lord, and then it puts me and my ego and my sin and my burdens all in their rightful place.
James MacDonald
#93. I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.
Bill Johnson
#94. Your vision becomes broader when you encounter God daily
Sunday Adelaja
#95. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Paulo Coelho
#96. Martha certainly wasn't the first and she won't be the last to dismiss someone else's encounter with God because it didn't fit the mold.
Rachel Held Evans
#97. Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.
Desmond Tutu
#98. Unless we encounter God, speculating about God becomes nothing more than abstract conjecture and theorizing that has little impact on daily life.
N Graham Standish
#99. God doesn't want to number your failures or count your accomplishments as much as He wants you to have an encounter with Him.
Ann Voskamp
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