Encounters Quotes - Page 9

• Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, May, Cases

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

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

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Missing, Theology

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• Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

  John Eldredge

  Men, Brilliant, Figs

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Bankers, Lucky

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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• Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

  Steve Allen

  Swimming, Thinking, Animal

  Steve Allen (1998). “Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind”

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• Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

  Robert Pierce

  Snakes, Rodents, Urban

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• There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?

  John Adams

  Christian, Country, Inspiration

  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (2006). “"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values”

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• A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Men, Suggestions, Bars

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Healthy, Information

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spring, Character, Eye

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

  John le Carre

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• I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Daughter, Sisterhood, Identity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Distinction, Private Life

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• What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Quality, Way, Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back to God, we find the peace that comes from appreciating the important things, and we encounter the joy of God’s unexpected gifts. Through daily prayer may our homes become, like the house of Martha and Mary, places where Jesus always finds a warm welcome.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Prayer, Home

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• All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Needs

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.185

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• When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter.

  Joo

  Love Is, Size, Fit

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• In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Deep Water, Brave

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• 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

  Children, Men, Choices

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• It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES.

  Martin Seligman

  Adversity, Thinking, Focus

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• It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Years, Twenties

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• I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

  Charles Kuralt

  Littles, Towns, Ordinary

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• I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Mistake, Book, Reality

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Say Anything, Needs, Poverty

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