Knowing God Quotes - Page 5

• The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched.  That is the way we can hope to know God.

  Kent Nerburn

  Buddhist, Men, Elephants

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.118, New World Library

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• Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.

  Sarah Palin

  Speak, Abraham, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mean, Knowing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

  Max Lucado

  Waiting, Knows

  Source: thebrinkonline.com

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• C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Learning, People, Failing

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• Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Knowing, Joy, Christ

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

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• Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

  Karl Rahner

  Knowing, Important

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• To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth.

  J. I. Packer

  Love Is, Heaven, Earth

  J. I. Packer (1993). “Knowing God Study Guide”, p.21, InterVarsity Press

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• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

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• From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

  Mother Teresa

  Grace, Soul, Moments

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.5, New World Library

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• As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Sin Of Pride, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wall, Blue, Doors

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jul 02, 2013

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• Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  God, Believe, Rewards

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1921). “The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive that Millions Now Living Will Never Die; a Text-book for Bible Study Specially Adapted for Use of Beginners; with Numerous Questions and Scripture Citations ...”

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• I know if I told you what God looked like and felt like then I'd be telling you a story. I just think we don't know. God manifests himself, herself or itself in a way that we need it, in a way that we can grab a hold of and a way that we can put our arms around.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Needs, Stories

  "Tim McGraw talks about faith, forgiveness and 'The Shack'". Interview With Angela Dawson, www.knoxnews.com. March 2, 2017.

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• Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.

  James Dobson

  Knowing, Who I Am, Joy

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• You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

  Bono

  Kids, Company, Really Weird

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• Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

  Michael Crichton

  Integrity, Ego, Intention

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• That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Strong, Knowing, Feelings

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

  Croft M. Pentz

  Peace With God, God Knows, Alcohol Recovery

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• The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Prayer, Purpose, Firsts

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.16, Revell

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• Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational

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• So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.

  Oswald Chambers

  Children, Father, Eye

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.59, Discovery House

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• My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

  Meister Eckhart

  Children, Joy, Soul

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• At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Action, Alms

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• If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Want Something, Desire

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