Knowing God Quotes

• If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Godly, Wish

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Things In Life, Giving

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• There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.

  J. I. Packer

  Differences, Knowing, Contentment

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• I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Joy, Soul, Asking

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.21, Zondervan

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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

  Fall, Problem, Accord

  "Knowing God". Book by James Packer, 1973.

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• To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

  D. A. Carson

  Loving God, Knows, Transformed

  D. A. Carson (1991). “The Gospel According to John”, p.556, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

  J. I. Packer

  What Matters, Analysis, Lasts

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

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• One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  God, Neat And Tidy, Knowing

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• When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Character, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.

  Adrian Rogers

  Study, Knows

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• Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humble, Expectations, Spirit

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• To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

  John Milton

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Knowing

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• Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Desire, Employment, Knows

  Brother Lawrence (2005). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

  Billy Graham

  Knowing, Different, Knows

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2013

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• Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

  John Ortberg

  Faithful, Trying, Knows

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Feet, Knowing, Wheelchairs

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• The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

  Steven J Lawson

  Littles, Realizing, Grows

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• We may not know the way God leads...but we know God leads! We do not know the way...but we know the Guide!

  Richard Halverson

  May, Way, Guides

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• There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

  John Calvin

  Knowing, Doe

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• The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Knows

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• Christianity is not primarily about lifestyle change; it is about knowing God.

  Michael Reeves

  Knowing, Christianity, Lifestyle

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• You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

  Rick Warren

  Needs, Knows

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• The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

  D. A. Carson

  Want, Knows

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.172, Baker Academic

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• I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

  Philip Yancey

  Knows

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?”, p.95, Zondervan

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