God Knows Best Quotes

• Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

  Socrates

  Prayer, Blessed, Philosophical

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• God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good--- and because it's from Him, even much better

  Janette Oke

  Inspirational, Trust, God

  Janette Oke (1999). “A Searching Heart”, p.233, Bethany House

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• If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!

  John McLeod

  God, Heart, Dear Lord

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• Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

  Charles Studd

  Loneliness, Heart, Wish

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• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

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• We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

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• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• But, God knows best, I concluded.

  Anne Bronte

  God Knows, Knows

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.691, Penguin

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• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perfect, Purpose, May

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

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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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• We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Errors, Acknowledge

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

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• God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

  Shoeless Joe Jackson

  Baseball, Men, Judging

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• Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Mortals

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.627, Library of America

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• I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others. But, God knows best, I concluded. There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.

  Anne Bronte

  Sorry, Selfish, Men

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.691, Penguin

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