Meeting Jesus Quotes

#1. The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.

David Plotz

#2. I also learned afresh that friendship requires a constant willingness to forgive each other for not being Christ, and a willingness to ask Christ himself to be the true center of the relationship.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#3. Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

LeBron James

#4. Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#5. Taken to extremes even the best human qualities would go sour.

Veronica Roth

#6. come-to-Jesus meeting in

Dan Lyons

#7. Reality can really tax your imagination.

Brooke Gladstone

#8. Elrond," Bruce said. "The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring."
"Jesus," Annie said. "None of you got laid in high school, did you?

Andy Weir

#9. This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs
no kings, no major welfare systems, no presidents necessary. His is a theology and practice for the people of God, not a set of suggestions for empire.

Shane Claiborne

#10. Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

Peter Kreeft

#11. I glanced at my brother. "How the hell did you jump to that conclusion?!" I asked.
He just grinned and tapped the side of his head. "Brains, dear girl, brains."
I snorted softly."I wasn't aware that was where you kept your brains.

Keri Arthur

#12. The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

Barbara Demick

#13. God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.

Josemaria Escriva

#14. I can levitate birds. No one cares.

Woody Allen

#15. What is the definition of "love"? Jesus answered that by depicting a man meeting material, physical, and economic needs through deeds. Caring for people's material and economic needs is not an option for Jesus. He refused to allow the law expert to limit the implications of this command to love.

Timothy J. Keller

#16. Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.

J. Oswald Sanders

#17. He places a hand on the curve of my hip. His touch is tender yet possessive. "That's good enough for now. And just so you know, I'm not letting you walk away from me this time. No dogs, no assholes, no appointments. Today you're mine." I

Mia Asher

#18. The skies were bright cerulean, teeming with ferocious winds, spilling mallards and fat wood drakes from the clouds.

Sue Monk Kidd

#19. You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.

Jim Cymbala

#20. I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

David Lodge

#21. My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#22. In that moment, I don't see the brother that I grew up with. I don't see the geek who can't use an iPod. I don't see the kid who can't throw a football to save his life. I see the man he will become. I see a leader, strong, pure, unconquered.

Douglas Pershing

#23. ... the scriptures... when properly examined and rightly divided, do not portray Jesus as a poverty-stricken individual. On the contrary, Jesus is seen as a Man whose needs were met and who was regularly involved in meeting the needs of others.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#24. When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

Buzz Aldrin

#25. As Christians we are called to make disciples of all the nations, meeting them where they are and serving them in ways that are relevant and meaningful. That is the challenge: as the church, to remain relevant and meaningful, in efforts to reach all people where they are in a way they need.

Kellen Roggenbuck

#26. What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

C. Z. Guest

#27. Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it.

Oprah Winfrey

#28. 'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all cultural boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the meaning of the books - that Winnie represents society and Wilbur the disabled - but I think it's just a great story.

Korky Paul

#29. He had been summoned to appear before a meeting of the Apostolic Council to defend his self-designated role as missionary to the gentiles (Paul insists he was not summoned to Jerusalem but went of his own accord because Jesus told him to).

Reza Aslan

#30. Jesus Christ," Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past.

Mary Doria Russell