Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it. . . " The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries.
These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.
You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.
We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.
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.
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.
To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.
We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation. . . To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.
I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to make a piece to sleep through, to sort of explore that sleeping space as a listening space and to have a different encounters between our listening minds or hearing minds and music. I think that's really interesting. After that I feel I've done my job.
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.