Quotes About Encountering God

#1. Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries.

Christian Hunt

#2. Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

Jonathan Morris

#3. God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.

Lee Strobel

#4. For encountering God means encountering transcendent security and transcendent eternity.

Paul Tillich

#5. Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Margaret Atwood

#6. The journey God has set before us isn't a freeway; we are constantly encountering forks and junctions and crossroads. Which way will we go when we meet them? Life is filled with decisions, and we can't avoid them.

Billy Graham

#7. People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

Ann Aguirre

#8. You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

Karen Katafiasz

#9. Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.

Henry Blackaby

#10. The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for the Lord within is the effort to find those places in the substance of the soul where God's mercy and human misery touch each other, where one has bearing on the other.

Anthony Lilles

#11. The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.

David A. Bednar

#12. One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head.

Hermann Broch

#13. How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!

T.L. Osborn

#14. If the White Witch offers you Turkish Delights, tell her to shove off.
Scout

Tammy Blackwell

#15. So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

Jackie Cooper

#16. In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.

Lois Greiman