Knowing God Quotes

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Doe, Knows

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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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• 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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• Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Knowing, Understanding, Knowledge Of God

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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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 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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• Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Hate, Reality

  Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, delivered 26 February 1965

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• In the end, we know God as unknown.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Ends, Knows

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• I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  God, Thinking, Knowing

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

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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 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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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

  J. I. Packer

  Knowing, Relief, His Love

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Believe, Science

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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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• To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, God Knows, All Things

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• 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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• The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Philosophy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.131, Barbour Publishing

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