Top 100 Quotes About Knowing God
#1. Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
Jim Elliot
#2. One of the first steps we should take in knowing God's voice is knowing God's heart.
Craig S. Keener
#3. Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride.
Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.
Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.
Blaise Pascal
#4. I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.
Vincent Van Gogh
#5. The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#6. True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.
Geoffrey Wood
#7. Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
Karl Rahner
#8. The greatest barrier to knowing God's will is simply that we want to run our own lives. Our problem is that a battle is going on in our hearts - a battle between our wills and God's will.
Billy Graham
#9. Being saved' doesn't just mean, as it does for many today, 'going to heaven when they die'. It means 'knowing God's rescuing power, the power revealed in Jesus, which anticipates, in the present, God's final great act of deliverance'.
N. T. Wright
#10. Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
Blaise Pascal
#12. Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.
Germany Kent
#13. The wildest part is that Jesus doesn't have to love us. His being is utterly complete and perfect, apart from humanity. He doesn't need me or you. Yet He wants us, chooses us, even considers us His inheritance (Eph. 1:18). The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
Francis Chan
#14. Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#15. Is refusing to give up, believing in dreams not yet seen, and knowing God gives us both. Hope
Lorilyn Roberts
#16. Eternal life is knowing God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ!
Andrew Wommack
#17. God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God.
John Piper
#18. We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
Frederick Lenz
#19. As knowing God becomes more important to you, you will stop thinking about discouragements and persecutions; you will stop worrying altogether
Sunday Adelaja
#20. We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.
Vicky Beeching
#21. That's when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God's watching you, knowing that He knows you're trying to be strong to please Him.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#22. When we walk with the Lord, the dark is actually a place we can never fully be. The unknown is not so frightening when we realize that our all-knowing God is in it. We know Him. And once we experience His light in the midst of darkness, our darkness will never be the same.
Stormie O'martian
#23. Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never stoop low to help somebody and have God miss knowing you
Denver Moore
#24. When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
John Milton
#25. Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.
Kirk Cameron
#26. Knowing God is a matter of grace. It is a relationship in which the initiative throughout is with God - as it must be, since God is so completely above us and we have so completely forfeited all claim on his favor by our sins.
J.I. Packer
#27. The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.
Voltaire
#28. He is conscious only of God ... To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
Meister Eckhart
#29. But ever since he had been a child, he wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing God and learning about man's sins.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Knowing God, we will always understand the path that leads to success
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Billy Graham
#32. Obedience requires knowing God's word, His expectations and then actually living them out.
Sara Dormon
#33. What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#34. maybe we need great disappointment to appreciate the good, and to better appreciate the meaning of God in our lives. I've come to realize that part of faith is opening yourself up to free will and knowing God will bring beauty, even in the midst of evil.
Taya Kyle
#35. What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#36. Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.
Swami Vivekananda
#37. Many of today's Christians are focused on obtaining what they want instead of being content knowing God will provide for their needs.
Jarrid Wilson
#38. For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#40. Knowing God can significantly increase your abilities and take away your limitations.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Knowing God's love, knowing God's goodness, and learning to embrace those attributes of God prompt us to pray.
Scot McKnight
#43. Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
Angela Of Foligno
#44. Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.
James Dobson
#45. Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
Arnold Albert Van Ruler
#46. The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#47. I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part - which is more than enough to keep us busy.
Peter Enns
#48. Christianity is not primarily about lifestyle change; it is about knowing God.
Michael Reeves
#49. Knowing God supersedes everything else because it is the supreme cause. Everything else - being, doing, loving, believing, hoping, praising, worshipping, evangelizing, glorifying, enjoying - is an effect.
Larry Alan Thompson
#50. Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#51. Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
Jim Elliot
#52. Knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating ... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.
Soren Kierkegaard
#53. There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
John Calvin
#54. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.
David Jeremiah
#55. Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?
Trai Byers
#56. We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
Victoria Osteen
#57. History forgets the names of those people that cannot recognize times and seasons but it always remembers the names of those people that, by knowing God's time, stand in the gap for countries and nations.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#59. Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.
James Dobson
#60. My stress resulted from not knowing God, not trusting him with my whole heart, seeking peace and purpose from the world instead of from him, and from being so afraid of change that I would rather suffer than obey.
Tracie Miles
#61. To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
Mother Teresa
#62. All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Swami Vivekananda
#63. The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"
David Jeremiah
#64. In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
John Calvin
#65. Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding.
Anonymous
#66. Prayer illuminates the difference between knowing God's will and guessing at it.
Becky Tirabassi
#67. Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
Voltaire
#68. Knowing God yields wonderful results, under the guidance and control of the Holy Spirit.
Stephen Arterburn
#69. The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.
Ramakrishna
#70. J. I. Packer says, "Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you."1
Billy Humphrey
#71. Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
Bob Goff
#72. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#73. know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet (b) be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.
Frederick Buechner
#74. Only when we humbly call on God to speak into our lives - knowing if he doesn't, we won't succeed - are we actually in a safe place.
Jefferson Bethke
#75. Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
Huston Smith
#76. Knowing depths of love of God makes life becomes an expression of that love
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Rowan waited, knowing she was gathering the words, hating the pain and sorrow and guilt on every line of her body. He'd sell his soul to the dark god to never have her look like that again.
Sarah J. Maas
#78. Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.
Charles Colson
#79. Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.
Charlotte Bronte
#80. The importance of knowing for certain that you have been saved cannot be understated. We do not know how many days, hours, or minutes God has granted us here to have an opportunity to make a choice.
Kimberly McRae
#81. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself.
Francis Chan
#83. When everything is going good, that's when I know God has rewarded me for my faith.
Torii Hunter
#84. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth
N. T. Wright
#85. Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.
Frederick Buechner
#86. The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons - a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct
Carrie Fisher
#87. True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
Elizabeth George
#88. We must warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time. We must also proclaim that there is forgiveness and peace in knowing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Billy Graham
#89. Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith.
Toni Sorenson
#90. The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.
Steven J. Lawson
#91. The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.
Kedar Joshi
#92. If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.
Sara Teasdale
#93. What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it.
Wayne W. Dyer
#94. God loves us and has adopted us exactly as we are, knowing every single thing about us. And if He's not ashamed of us, then why should we be?
Matt Chandler
#95. Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'
Isabel Gillies
#96. It's easy to believe in God when you wake up every morning knowing you are completely and unconditionally loved.
Tiffany Reisz
#97. There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.
J.I. Packer
#98. The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.
Francis Chan
#99. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.
Sunday Adelaja
#100. The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles through, sneaks by, smuggles itself amidst the powers of destruction, knowing somewhere that God's plan for Creation is still at the very beginning.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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