But it was his personal faith and belief in the liturgy as a place where one encountered God that motivated all of his work.

Indeed, to study American history is to encounter God again and again.

"As it happens, it's one of the places where I sometimes encounter God," she said.

Whatever way they travel, young people will encounter God in the near-timeless mountains.

Three days later he returned, claiming to have encountered God and received guidance to start a new tradition.

Ramsey used this point to argue that humans come to encounter God also by way of personal disclosure, thus offering an argument from analogy.

Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian, to have faith, to encounter God.

I thought you only encountered God after you die.

"So you can encounter God while you're alive," he said.

Encountering God in the burning bush, he fearfully accepts the command to lead his people to freedom.