Quotes About Encounters With God

#1. 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

#2. There are no chance encounters with God.

Kristy Cambron

#3. Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure ... a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.

Pope John Paul II

#4. When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

Eric Ludy

#5. The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

Paul C. Nagel

#6. Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

Bill Johnson

#7. It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. 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

#9. Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

Graham Cooke

#10. I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Vin Diesel

#11. Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

Timothy Keller

#12. In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Christopher West

#13. Taking delight in random encounters that
come our way is a wonderful reminder that
God is in control.

Mel Lawrenz

#14. 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

#15. The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

Pope Francis

#16. If on your journey you should encounter GOD, GOD will be cut

Hattori Hanzo

#17. Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

Raymond Moody

#18. The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#19. Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#20. After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#21. 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

#22. Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#23. We owe the world an encounter with God

Bill Johnson

#24. 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

#25. Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

Francis Chan

#26. Worship is about encounter-coming into God's presence

Jack W. Hayford

#27. Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

Hadewijch

#28. God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody," he said bitterly. "We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.

Elizabeth Peters

#29. God encounters are to occur and continue throughout the life of a believer, constantly bringing each of us into a higher level of spiritual consciousness, constantly sharpening our spiritual senses, constantly challenging our complacency and status quo mentality.

Robin Bertram

#30. Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.

Becky Fischer

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. A worthy life involves loving as loved folks do, sharing the ridiculous mercy God spoiled us with first. (It really is ridiculous.) It means restoring people, in ordinary conversations and regular encounters. A worthy life means showing up when showing up is the only thing to do.

Jen Hatmaker