Encounters Quotes

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

How one encounters reality is a choice.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.

The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

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

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

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.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.

Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, The 5th Wave, explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.