Knowing God Quotes - Page 6

• Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

  Charles Stanley

  Pain, God Love, Accepting

  Charles F. Stanley (1997). “The Blessings of Brokenness: Why God Allows Us to Go Through Hard Times”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.

  Stormie Omartian

  Spiritual, Live Life, Honor

  Stormie Omartian (2016). “Let God's Word Empower Your Prayers: A Devotional”, p.9, Harvest House Publishers

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• Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer
  Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fall, Heaven, Earth

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• One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Self, Order, Knows

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• In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

  Michael Servetus

  Philosophical, Proud, Christ

  "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth". Awake! magazine, pp. 18-21, May 2006.

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• He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Self, Knowing

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If we trust ourselves, we know how to avoid interfering with nature and how to live in harmony. When we know God as an unseen, loving, and accepting power at the heart of everything, allowing us to make our own choices, then God is a trusted part of our nature.

  Wayne Dyer

  God, Heart, Choices

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• God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, "It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence." God loves us as we are right now! That's one of the things I'm most grateful for. I love the freedom to be myself in God. I pray that a year from now, five years from now, I will be a godlier woman, but I know God won't love me any more than he does right this minute.

  Sheila Walsh

  God, Grateful, Heart

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• How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Use, Want

  Letters and papers from Prison, p. 311, 1996.

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• You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

  Greg Laurie

  Earth, Knows

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• A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.

  Barbara Johnson

  Life, Hurt, Laughter

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbour, and for judging him, as we are in the habit of doing. Everyone shall give an answer to God for himself. Everyone has a conscience; everyone hears God's Word, and knows God's Will either from books or from conversation with other people. Especially do not look with evil intention upon the sins of your elders, which do not regard you; "to his own master he standeth or falleth." Correct your own sins, amend your own life.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Book, Passion

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• The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

  Richard Rohr

  Imagination, Darkness, Feelings

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• The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.

  Francis Chan

  Knowing, Treasure

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.42, David C Cook

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• I've had no ­contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Daughter, Moving, Years

  "Meet the painter Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2010.

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• The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Literature, Immediacy

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.

  Anthony de Mello

  God, Thinking, Moon

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• If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Honesty, Heart, Knows

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• We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Trying, Enough Time

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• Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

  Charles Stanley

  Optimistic, Adequacy, May

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• Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Ignorance, Errors, Israel

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• The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Risk, Lovers

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• My approach is that we are not searching for experiences here. We are trying to know the one who experiences all experiences. Our search is for the witness. Who is this observer? Who is this consciousness? Sometimes it feels sad, sometimes it feels happy; sometimes it is so high, flying in the sky, and sometimes so down. Who is this watcher of all these games? - high and low, happy, unhappy, in heaven and hell. Who is this watcher? To know this watcher is to know God. And you are already it - just a little awakening is needed... no search but only awakening.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Games

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• Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Blessing, Corn

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• Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you.

  James Dobson

  Letting Go, Knowing, Gods Will

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