Quotes About God Knows Better

#1. Life with God at its core is about giving your life up to something bigger and more powerful. It's about saying at every turn that God knows better than we know, and that his Spirit will lead us in ways that we couldn't have predicted. I have known that, but I haven't really lived that.

Shauna Niequist

#2. God knows better than we do. He always does. Even when it doesn't make sense.

Karen Kingsbury

#3. As my creator, God knows better than I do what will truly make me happy.

Paula Hendricks

#4. God knows better than we do what we need.

Victor Hugo

#5. Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup.

John Buchan

#6. Our prayers must be in accordance with [God's] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.

Billy Graham

#7. You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

Cassandra Clare

#8. God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.

Johanna Spyri

#9. In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception of eternal things.

John Tauler

#10. Better for the judge to see my innocence than for me to think I see it. It is very comfortable for me to know that I am one of God's people - but whether I know it or not, if the Lord knows it,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.

Selwyn Hughes

#12. There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death
who knows?
may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.

Sophocles

#13. God knows far better than we do what is best for us. Thank God even when He says "No" or "Wait." His answer is always perfect.

Billy Graham

#14. The truth is simply this: you can find a better man than I. God knows you wouldn't have to look very hard. But I don't believe you can find one who loves you more.

Courtney Milan

#15. What about the look in your eyes?' 'God knows. I was just trying to make you better.' 'Well, you did that. You've always done that. Now, go to bed. I don't dare help you. It's all I can do right now, just looking at you, falling out of my dressing gown like that.

Beatriz Williams

#16. Don't poets know it
Better than others?
God can't be always everywhere: and, so,
Invented Mothers

Edwin Arnold

#17. Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

George Mikes

#18. Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

Ronald Goldman

#19. It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it.

Nell Newman

#20. Jesus was always at the wheel, but he's not particularly cautious. In fact, he takes hairpin turns at seventy miles per hour if you want to know the truth of it. But as he is God, I've always figured he knows how to drive better than I do.

Lisa Samson

#21. God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#22. A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

Robin Wasserman

#23. It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

Neal A. Maxwell

#24. Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.

Max Lucado

#25. Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we'd be intolerable creatures.

Tiffany Madison

#26. Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.

Leonard Sweet

#27. A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

Vance Havner

#28. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Criss Jami

#29. A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

#30. Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for our lives.

Beth Moore

#31. The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

D. A. Carson

#32. I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Carson McCullers

#33. For the first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health.

Ray Bradbury

#34. The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him, imitating His goodness, His mercy, and His love of man.

Leo Tolstoy

#35. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Socrates

#36. And now we go our separate ways, I to die and you to live, which is better God only knows.

Plato

#37. God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#38. Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what. ...

Charles Bukowski

#39. God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good
and because it's from Him, even much better

Janette Oke

#40. You would think that the more a man knows and loves God, the deeper he gets into understanding His Word, and the further he progresses in personal holiness, the better he would be at being a watchful man, but that is sadly not the case.

James MacDonald

#41. A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#42. I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Epictetus

#43. And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows

Socrates

#44. And no one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world, which kill in the name of god and country or for whatever reason they deem appropriate.

Richard Ramirez

#45. A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#46. Naturally God knows how to describe Himself much better than we know how to describe Him.

C.S. Lewis