Encounters Quotes - Page 11

• In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

  Judy Woodruff

  Phones, Lasts, Study

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

  Max Anders

  Substitutes, Word Of God

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• If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

  Tony Kushner

  Lying, Thinking, Choices

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• When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Difficulty, Make Sense

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• The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Issues, Leprechaun

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• But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Doe, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.315, Library of America

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• The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Opportunity, Journey

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• Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.

  James Cromwell

  Horse, Perfect, Sound

  "The Construction Of James Cromwell". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2013.

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• 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

  Cutting, Idols, Ideas

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Doing You, Example

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• There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve never had any bad encounters with any of it.

  Maisie Williams

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "‘Game Of Thrones’ Arya Stark Speaks: Maisie Williams On Season 3 Finale, Her Red Wedding Vine". Interview with Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2013.

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• The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

  Matsuo Basho

  Believe, Silence, Desire

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• In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, School, College

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• You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Mind, May, Remember

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• You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

  William Finnegan

  Past, Dragons, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses' inner being. ... There was a Holy Narrator beside me who helped me understand what I saw and heard, and he made references to relevant passages of Scripture. There were other Biblical figures also present - Joshua, Samuel, David, and even the Lord Jesus were there.

  Bob Hartley

  Jesus, Taken, Biblical

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• I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

  Karen Russell

  Real, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How one encounters reality is a choice.

  Martin Heidegger

  Reality, Choices

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• But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Long, Risk

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.54, Zondervan

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• Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

  Martin Buber

  Humanity, Hours, Renewal

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• 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

  Law, Ideas, Christ

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out for themselves, since even ministry can be a career decision or an attraction to "religion" more than the result of an encounter with God or themselves. Formal religious status can maintain the false self rather effectively, especially if there are a lot of social payoffs like special respect, titles, salaries, a good self image, or nice costumes. It is no accident that the religious "Pharisees" became the symbolic bad guys in the Jesus story.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Nice

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.35, SPCK

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• Thus, human existence-at least as long as it has not been neurotically distorted-is always directed to something, or someone, other than itself, be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter lovingly.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Long, Existential, Existence

  Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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• There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Pain, Suffering, Way

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Vanity, Personality

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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