Quotes About Knowing Yourself And God

#1. Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

Mark Dever

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. It's easy to believe in God when you wake up every morning knowing you are completely and unconditionally loved.

Tiffany Reisz

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.

Alistair Begg

#15. If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.

Bryant McGill

#16. Always see the good in everyone...learn to see through God's eyes no matter what...remember, the tables may turn tomorrow. You just never know!

Kemi Sogunle

#17. Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans.

Elizabeth George

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.

Pat Conroy

#21. But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

John Piper

#22. 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

#23. Identity the greatest thing that ever happened to all humanity on earth. Identity the source of knowing who you are and where you come from. Identity the source of understanding yourself and makes you proud to be the person who you are, the daughter, the son of the Most High God.

Euginia Herlihy

#24. The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

Peter Kreeft

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

Jim Elliot

#31. Knowing depths of love of God makes life becomes an expression of that love

Sunday Adelaja

#32. One of the first steps we should take in knowing God's voice is knowing God's heart.

Craig S. Keener

#33. 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

#34. Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

Charles Colson

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#40. When everything is going good, that's when I know God has rewarded me for my faith.

Torii Hunter

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.

Elizabeth George

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

Steven J. Lawson

#48. The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

Kedar Joshi