Knowing God Quotes - Page 2

• For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

  J. I. Packer

  Goal, Higher, Compelling

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

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• Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Christian, Jesus, Life And Death

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Men, Needs

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Mother, Father, People

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• I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Doe, Clue, Bigs

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• There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and all of the books we've read and all of our religious experiences and what others have told us and tried to convince us of. But knowing God is when we make conscious contact.

  Wayne Dyer

  Religious, Book, Convince Us

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• Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

  Henry Blackaby

  Want, Facts, Difficulty

  Henry Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (1998). “Experiencing God Day by Day”, B&H Publishing Group

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• Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

  J. I. Packer

  Study, Blunders, Disregard

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.19, InterVarsity Press

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• The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"

  R. C. Sproul

  Atheist, Philosophical, Men

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• You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

  J. I. Packer

  Stills, Knows, Godliness

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• Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Men, Knowledge Of God, Impossible

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

  Jim Elliot

  Knowing, Earth, Excitement

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• It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Terrible, Knows

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.5, 1909.

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• The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere.

  Martyn

  Prayer, Teaching, Understanding

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• But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Inspirational, God

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Adventure

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• You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Deep Water, Water, Knows

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• The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

  John Stott

  People, Atheism, Reason

  John Stott, Greg Scharf (2015). “The Challenge of Preaching”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Doe, Knows

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• The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Sin, Behavior, Code

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• The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Time

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• If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Father, Needs

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2014

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• I want to know God's thoughts.

  Albert Einstein

  Want, Knows

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Mean, Son

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• 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

  Christian, Imagination, Goal

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

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