Quotes about Meeting
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
— Oscar Wilde
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
— Oscar Wilde
The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
— Cormac McCarthy
Suppose, for example, a brother has a brilliant but unbroken intellect. He may come to the meetings of a local church, but he is untouched. Unless he meets someone whose mind is sharper than his, he will not be helped. He will analyze the thoughts of the preacher and reject them as useless and meaningless. Months and years may pass by, and it is impossible for anything to touch his spirit. His spirit is stonewalled by his intellectual mind.
— Watchman Nee
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
— Henry Cloud
God wants the church to be a community where real people in real relationships are meeting real needs in real ways. God did not create the church simply as a classroom where you get instruction or as a theater where you come to watch a performance.
— Tony Evans
When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
— Samuel Johnson
I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!
— Adoniram Judson
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
— Anne Lamott
Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.
— Gordon Hinckley
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
— William Barclay
At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.
— George Whitefield