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

  Adrian Rogers

  Study, Knows

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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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• 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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• 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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• The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Adventure

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• The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Sin, Behavior, Code

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• To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person.

  Max Anders

  Christian, Lying, People

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• The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"

  R. C. Sproul

  Atheist, Philosophical, Men

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

  Rick Warren

  Needs, 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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• 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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