Encounters Quotes - Page 29

• Some places, because of their spiritual history, are noted to be locations where people will often experience an open heaven. In fact, there are places where the heavens are open more than in other places. Most of you are familiar with previous moves of God in places such as Toronto (The Toronto Blessing), the meetings in Pensacola, and Argentina, just to name a few. Just like in Jacob's day, today, there are certain places where heaven is open, geographical locations where you are more likely to have an encounter with God.

  Todd Bentley

  Spiritual, Moving, Blessing

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

  Becky Fischer

  Children, Hunger, Our Children

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• If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic world, there is very little there that you can get hold of that is really informative about Islam. If you look at the popular media, you'll see that the stereotype that begins with Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik has really remained and developed into the transnational villain of television and film and culture in general.

  Edward Said

  Country, Islamic, School

  Source: progressive.org

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• Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Self, Law, Two

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.

  Gerald Edelman

  Thinking, Cells, Essence

  "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.

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• Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

  C. Douglas Dillon

  Events, Infinite, Paranormal

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• I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

  Nick Frost

  Stars, War, Doctors

  "Simon Pegg and Nick Frost". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 16, 2011.

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• That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Harm, Convince

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• Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

  Aaron Tippin

  Song, Hands, Firsts

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• I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.

  Nina Hagen

  People, Stories, Want

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• Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Grateful, Practice, People

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• I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.

  Philip Yancey

  Running, Firsts, Clue

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.37, Zondervan

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• There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Two, Tasks, Dominion

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• Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

  David Mamet

  Doubt, Acting, Shame

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• No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Drug, Mouths, General Public

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• What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Entering, Revelations

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.219, eBookIt.com

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• ‎When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Events, Connections

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Mar 30, 2011

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• You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.

  Richard Rohr

  Strong, Moving, Perspective

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• Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Objectivity, Growth, Population

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

  Moby

  Morning, Drinking, Taken

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or brown body without the white body. And there are ways in which, if you say, "Oh, this happened to me," then the white body can say, "Well, it happened to her and it has nothing to do with me." But if it says "you," that you is an apparent part of the encounter.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, White, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Character, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built environment. I'd couple this with a huge commitment to fundamental research in nanostructure to goose the next generation of more efficient, cheaper, dematerialized cells. And if I'm truly czar, I'd emphasize silicon technologies, as that approach is the one least likely to encounter material constraints in supplying an explosive global demand.

  Denis Hayes

  Couple, Commitment, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mistake, Stupidity, Inquiry

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• In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

  Desmond Tutu

  Powerful, Grace, Pharaohs

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