Knowing God Quotes - Page 16

• 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

  Know How, Knows, Dies

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• 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

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

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• 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

  Heart, Thinking, Order

  Brother Lawrence, Aeterna Press (1905). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.32, Aeterna Press

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• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.56, Discovery House

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• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

  J. I. Packer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Dwelling

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

  J. I. Packer

  Determination, Discovery, Knowing

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

  J. I. Packer

  Eye, Knowing, Hands

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.7, InterVarsity Press

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• Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

  J. I. Packer

  Mean, Goal, Together

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.117, InterVarsity Press

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• No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.

  Franklin Graham

  Love You, Storm, Matter

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• 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

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.500, Discovery House

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