Personal Encounter With God Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A child her wayward pencil drew
On margins of her book;
Garlands of flower, dancing elves,
Bud, butterfly, and brook,
Lessons undone, and plum forgot,
Seeking with hand and heart
The teacher whom she learned to love
Before she knew t'was Art.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.

Timothy Keller

#4. For my hope was founded on a fat man in Bree; and my fear was founded on the cunning of Sauron. But fat men who sell ale have many calls to answer; and the power of Sauron is still less than fear makes it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Rusty, Dad needs to work and I'm going out, so you're babysitting."
"I like that word," Rusty said, settling down for a nap. "Come, babies. Let us sit together.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

Max Von Sydow

#8. I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.

Peter Lynch

#9. When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

Jacques Barzun

#10. Whoever is holding the belt right now is the one I want to fight. I want to get that belt again. It's mine.

Tomoki Kameda

#11. He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it.

Dean Koontz

#12. If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

Jay Mohr

#13. I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don't.

Neila Rey

#14. I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Vivica A. Fox

#15. We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.

Joan D. Chittister

#16. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

Randy Pausch

#17. Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

Nigel Farage