Knowing God Quotes - Page 11

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

  Torii Hunter

  Knows

  "Los Angeles Angels outfielder Torii Hunter on how his faith helps him set a good example". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Differences, Feelings, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

  Mother Teresa

  Praying, Knows, Ifs

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• There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Believe, Shantaram, Knows

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Missing, Behavior

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.210, Harper Collins

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• It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because of the abundance of human misery and suffering-which, indeed, lies all about us. Such individuals almost dare God to demonstrate His existence by straightening things out-and at once! But He is a much different kind of Father than that. Surely it is requisite to eternal life that we come to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent (see John 17:3).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Lying

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• God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mean, Shining, Mind

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• The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Environmental, And Love

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.294

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• 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

  Imagination, Heaven, Imagine

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• Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

  Kay Arthur

  Jesus, Heaven, Use

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.89, WaterBrook

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• The fastest way to know God is to serve the God in someone else.

  Peter Reinhart

  Faith, Way, Knows

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• To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Knows

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Smart, Joy

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• Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Want, Honest

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• Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

  Star Jones

  Trying, Sometimes, Knows

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• In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.

  Van Morrison

  Religious, Lonely, Light

  "Song: 'Whenever God Shines His Light' ('Avalon Sunset')". 1989.

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• You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

  Joe Klein

  Mediocrity, Larger Than Life, Life Is

  "'Primary Colors' Author Joe Klein Talks About Political Truth and Fiction". "Crossfire" with Mary Matalin, Bill Press, www.cnn.com. May 2, 2000.

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• I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Thinking, Discipline

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• As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

  Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

  God, Atheism, Sides

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• Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Personality, Moments

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way.

  Terry Taylor

  Angel, Way, Knows

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Hate, Self

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• 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

  Feelings, Way, Spirit

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

  Theodore Bikel

  Purpose, Claims, Knows

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• To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God's will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Grieving, Long

  Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.209, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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