God Knows Quotes - Page 11

• God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

  John Henry Newman

  Medicine, Perfection, Soul

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.337, Ignatius Press

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• It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Ideas, Waiting

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Christian, Grieving, Suffering

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• A child is born with no state of mind,
  Blind to the ways of mankind.
  God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too,
  Because only God knows what you'll go through.

  Melvin Glover

  Children, Rap, Hip Hop

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• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Crazy, Heart, Patriotic

  "Style Invitational Week 1055: A K-contest to honor the K of 1K blots of ink; plus anagrams". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Inspire, Accepted

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• Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Religious, Lying

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.516, Da Capo Press

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• The only gay people who remain in the closet are those who choose to, who don't want to publicly declare their sexuality, which is true of heterosexual people as well. I don't walk around with a button or a T-shirt that says "I am a heterosexual." I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. Although God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

  William Friedkin

  Taken, Gay, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• God doesn't want to give Israel a king, because God knows, being the rather observant deity God is, that the Israelites will become like all other nations: they will worship their king and not God.

  Tripp York

  Giving, Worship

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• That's the one thing that's funny about going from modeling to acting. In modeling, you're supposed to think about what you look like all the time. When you're in front of the camera, if you're not considering that, God knows what the pictures will look like. With acting, you have to completely forget it.

  Emily Ratajkowski

  Thinking, Acting, Forget

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

  Maurice Sendak

  People, World, Granted

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When we see through the lens of God's truth, revealed primarily in his Word, everything comes into sharper focus. Suddenly, we'll see that everything is integrated and overlapping - that the world is not divided between the sacred and the secular, but there's one life, and God is the Master of all of it. God knows all things, past, present, and future, and is all-wise; when we train ourselves to see more as he sees, we'll pursue the things he values and seek to live before him as our primary audience.

  Kenneth Boa

  Past, Focus, World

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In real life, I'm very shy, but people think I'm this angry, sexy kind of - god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I'm definitely not the person you see in pictures.

  Lara Stone

  Sexy, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Chinese get over 40 percent of their oil from the Middle East through the Persian Gulf, but have you ever seen a Chinese aircraft carrier sitting inside the Persian Gulf? For at least 40 years, the United States of America has been guaranteeing Chinese energy supplies. Sitting here today, the US provides funds to, honest to God, 99 percent of the countries on the planet. We even give North Korea humanitarian aid. We give them food, and God knows what they do with it. They probably feed it to the crooks in the headquarters.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Country, Giving, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Car, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being a lawyer, first of all, think creatively. Think, "How can we deal with this particular case in a way we haven't dealt with similar ones in the past?" Second, don't be afraid of the people who are willing to defend your client. I find too many lawyers say, "Keep that defense committee away from me!" If it weren't for my defense committee, I'd be sitting in federal prison in Texas today. And the press! You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

  Lynne Stewart

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

  John J. Legere

  First Time, Pow

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Feelings, Helping

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

  Dolly Parton

  Two, Different, World

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• There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.

  Oswald Chambers

  Believe, Sea, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.31, Discovery House

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• My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

  Mr. T

  Mother, Cancer, Kids

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• I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

  Joe Perry

  Artist, People, Gone

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• As long as you want to pay to see a band, what makes the band want to get better? Nothing! Really! The Stones are, God knows, horrible beyond horrible, but it doesn't stop the fans from paying money to see them decompose in front of your very eyes.

  John Seagall

  Eye, Long, Get Better

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while I'm longing for something more. The longing and the gratitude, both. I'm practicing believing that God knows more than I know, that he sees what I can't, that he's weaving a future I can't even imagine from where I sit this morning.

  Shauna Niequist

  Gratitude, Morning, Believe

  Shauna Niequist (2013). “Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes”, p.50, Zondervan

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• The fear is that talking back, that engaging at all, is to open the door for god-knows-what.

  Rose McGowan

  Doors, Talking, Engaging

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