God Knows Quotes - Page 3

• And by another year,
  Such as God knows, with freer air,
  More fruits and fairer flowers
  Will bear,
  While I droop here.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Flower, Air

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.129, Penguin

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• Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

  Hadewijch

  Men, People, Humanity

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.61, Paulist Press

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• No God, no peace; know God, know peace.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Peace With God, Knowing God, Alcohol Recovery

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• Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

  Charles Lamb

  Littles, Merit, Knows

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1856). “The Life and Letters”, p.111

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• So let God know what you're doing just by doing it - or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good - because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.

  Ysabella Brave

  Letting Go, Men, Imperfection

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

  Josef Pieper

  Perfect, Doe, Way

  "Leisure, the Basis of Culture" by Josef Pieper, translated by Gerald Malsbary, South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, (p. 106), 1998.

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• Do you think that your sin is hidden away? Do you think that men will never know it? Well, you should remember that God knows it already. And you should remember, second, that sin continued in will inevitably come to light. Usually it will be exposed in this life. Certainly it will be exposed when you stand before God and God's record books are opened. That which is whispered in a corner shall be shouted from a housetop. God will bring every secret thing to judgment, we are told. What warning to our hearts!

  John R. Rice

  Book, Heart, Men

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• There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.

  Walter Hilton

  Hypocrite, Thinking, Being A Hypocrite

  Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Car

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• Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

  Maxfield Parrish

  Art, Explanation, Knows

  Said to William O. Chessman on March 27, 1936. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

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• What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Past, Giving, Locks

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.38, Random House

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• All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1992, Simon and Schuster

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• Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Doe, Only God Knows, Knows

  "Pacquiao-Hatton Worthy of Grand Setting". Yahoo! Sports, March 31, 2009.

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• God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

  Tony Kushner

  Play, Actors, Week

  Interview with John Moore, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Children, Feet, Two

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.41, Grove Press

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• Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us." Do you really believe that, Mother?" Peter asked quietly. Yes," she said, "I do believe it--almost always--except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I don't believe it, I know it's true--and I try to believe it.

  E. Nesbit

  Mother, Mistake, Nice

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• The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does not always approve of our behavior. He is not pleased when we go against his will, and when we do, we always suffer the consequences and have to work with Him to correct our thoughts, words, actions, or attitudes. And while you should work to improve in the areas where you fall short, nothing you do will ever cause God to love you less…or more. His love is a constant you can depend on.

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Fall, Love You

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• I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.

  Anne Bronte

  Sorry, Selfish, Men

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.691, Penguin

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• It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moon, Years, Feet

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

  Richard Yates

  Window, Ought, Knows

  Richard Yates (2014). “The Collected Stories of Richard Yates”, p.173, Henry Holt and Company

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• I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Wonder, Feels

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Loyalty, Writing, Passion

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• And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Men, Names, Needs

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.40, HarperCollins

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• God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

  Nick Cave

  Voice, Bags, Burning

  "And the Ass Saw the Angel". Book by Nick Cave, 1989.

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• In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

  Virginia Woolf

  Shadow, Life Is, Embrace

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.766, Delphi Classics

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