Top 100 To Know God Quotes
#1. Asked why we should strive to know God, my answer would be selfish: I want to be a creator. This is the ultimate promise of spirituality, that you can become the author of your own existence, the maker of personal destiny. Your brain is already performing this service for you unconsciously.
Deepak Chopra
#2. Discover continually until you are consumed with a passion to know God
Sunday Adelaja
#3. To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
John Calvin
#4. The gospel doesn't erase our past, but it drastically changes our future with a living hope. The gospel gives us the opportunity to be healed and to know God as our Abba Father. With our adoption into God's family comes a radically new life.
Johnny Carr
#5. Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
John Piper
#6. To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#7. The purpose of life is to know God and to bring glory and honor to his name. For most people, marriage enhances the possibility of achieving this objective.
Gary Chapman
#8. We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
#9. The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.
Deepak Chopra
#10. The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.
Pat Robertson
#11. If we claim to know God, let's reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let's carry Him
Sunday Adelaja
#12. To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. When you come to know God personally and He becomes your close Friend, you will live an easy and fulfilled life.
Sunday Adelaja
#14. If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
C.S. Lewis
#15. If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.
Carolyn Custis James
#16. The whole duty of humanity, from a Christian perspective is: 'To know God and to show God.'
James Patterson
#17. Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.
John Ortberg
#18. The guidance of the Holy Spirit enables us to know God's will for our life
Sunday Adelaja
#19. When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
F.B. Meyer
#20. The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
Richard Rohr
#21. The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched. That is the way we can hope to know God.
Kent Nerburn
#22. Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.
Beth Moore
#24. It is far better to know God's truth than to be ignorant of it.
Billy Graham
#25. To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth. And the New Testament sets forth this knowledge, not as the privilege of a favored few, but as a normal part of ordinary Christian experience, something to which only the spiritually unhealthy or malformed will be strangers.
J.I. Packer
#26. God. Our highest destiny is to know God, to be in personal relationship with him. Our chief claim to nobility as human beings is that we were made in the image of God and are therefore capable of knowing him.
John R.W. Stott
#27. To-day is given us mainly that we may learn to know God better, and to love Him more, and to serve Him more joyfully.
Alexander MacLaren
#29. I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
Theodore Bikel
#30. We have to know someone before we can truly love him. In order to know God, we must think about Him often. Once we get to know Him, we will think about Him even more often, because where our treasure is, there also is our heart!
Brother Lawrence
#31. According to Jesus, acknowledging our neediness opens the door to genuine and lasting happiness. Religions usually talk about what a person has to "do", but Jesus talks about what we "can't do". He says that our weakness, not our power or what we bring to God, enables us to know God.
Paul E. Miller
#32. If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
#33. The exercise of force is contrary to the principles of God's government; He desires only the service of love; and love cannot be commanded; it cannot be won by force or authority. Only by love is love awakened. To know God is to love Him;
Ellen G. White
#34. Helping people to know God and to be obedient to him is perhaps the greatest gift we can bestow. Understood in this way, Christian education can be be one of the most compassionate ministries of the church.
Perry G. Downs
#35. To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well.
Roberta C. Bondi
#36. You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.
Greg Laurie
#37. We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#38. To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego.
Peter Santos
#39. In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity ... We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.
Michael Servetus
#40. Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.
Andy Murray
#43. Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God.
Oswald Chambers
#44. To know God is to know love, because God is love.
Eric E. Redic
#45. The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?
RZA
#46. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" -St. John 1:14-
"I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details" -Einstein-
"It's not who you know, It's 'You Know Who!" -GoldenEagle-
1 St. John 2 Einstein 3 GoldenEagle
#48. An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.
Craig S. Keener
#50. To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
#51. What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
J.I. Packer
#54. The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.
Fatema Mernissi
#55. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. ROMANS 12:2 NLT
Various
#56. The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
Wayne Dyer
#57. To know God, you must appreciate the salvaging will of His son. Through Christ, we become true leaders worthy of rewards!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. 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
#60. And where people do not want to know God, he usually allows them to be without him - at least for a while. When desire conflicts with reality, sooner or later reality wins.
Dallas Willard
#61. To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
Rob Bell
#62. From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.
Mother Teresa
#63. I want you to know God, but not because you've made some sort of bargain or deal with Him. You must seek His face because you want to know the Lord and because you want the Lord to be part of your life through all times, not just bad times.
Darlene Franklin
#64. To know God's laws and abide by them is a privilege.
Sunday Adelaja
#65. Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
M. R. DeHaan
#66. A beautiful heart wants to know God and gets to know him through his Word.
Lauren Scruggs
#67. In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.
Jonathan Goforth
#68. The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.
Barbara Hambly
#69. The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.
Eric Ludy
#70. If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
Philip Yancey
#71. We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.
Matt Chandler
#72. Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?
Mark Hart
#73. Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God - truly know Him - is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#75. If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
Katherine Paterson
#76. I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.
Philip Yancey
#77. It is impossible to know God and His laws, without knowing His Word.
Sunday Adelaja
#78. To know God, you need only to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God. Otherwise, just stay as you were made, within your natural character.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#79. The fastest way to know God is to serve the God in someone else.
Peter Reinhart
#80. But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life.
Ravi Zacharias
#81. We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
Teresa Of Avila
#82. With God all things are possible, and no conversion ever takes place save by the almighty power of the Holy Ghost. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know God.
Hudson Taylor
#83. I grasped the who, and that was enough when I didn't understand the why. What I have learned along the way, and what Job learned too, is that it is better to know God than to know the answers!
Kasey Van Norman
#84. I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spirit - I would say. It is the Spirit in us who reveals God.
Henri Nouwen
#85. As I see it, we shall never succeed in knowing ourselves unless we seek to know God: let
Teresa Of Avila
#86. We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#87. Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
Carl Sagan
#88. Whatever else you set out to do, begin by getting to know God and seeking His will in your life. If you do that, you will find Him. He will lead you. He will bless you. What a wonderful promise! But it is conditional. If you turn your back on the Lord, He will cast you off forever.
James C. Dobson
#89. The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.
Philip Yancey
#90. If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.
J. Richard Clarke
#91. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.
Brother Lawrence
#92. If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.
Kevin DeYoung
#93. So before you can really know anything for sure, you either have to be God or you have to know God and have special revelation from God.
Aron Ra
#94. The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#95. But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.
Frank E. Peretti
#96. Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea
Sarada Devi
#97. Not to experience the reality why you are created is not to know God
Sunday Adelaja
#98. C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.
Neal A. Maxwell
#99. I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.
Teresa Of Avila
#100. To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
