That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms. . . A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.
If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.
Reggie [Bush] is the slowest person anyone will ever encounter. I don't understand how he's so fast on the field. He's like a slug!
Angels, inasmuch as they come from the Throne Room of the Thrice-holy God, usher us into the presence of God once removed and such encounters with God are more powerful and overwhelming than ordinary moments with God.
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.
There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.
There are self-awareness groups, to help you discover who you really are. . . encounter groups, to help you deal with who you really are. . . assertiveness training groups to help you stand up for who you really are. . . Suddenly, the only way to become an individual is to join a group.
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.
We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.
Sometimes when we’re focused on quickly getting to our destination, we’ll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there’s more than one path that will lead you to where you’re going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!
You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.
The essence of Christianity. . . is an ever-new encounter with. . . the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!