Knowledge Of God Quotes - Page 4

• The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Church, World, Want

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• As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

  Jerry Bridges

  Practice, Drawing, Growing

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.83, NavPress

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• Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

  Thomas Merton

  Thanksgiving, Rejoice, Christian Thanksgiving

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.46, Macmillan

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• The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!

  Sam Storms

  God, Religious, Learning

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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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• It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Science, Essence

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• Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

  John Calvin

  Christianity, Genuine

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• Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah cries, we have believed, and we testify that the very baptism which he announced is alone able to purify those who have repented. It is the water of life. But the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and of no benefit to you. For what is the use of a baptism which cleanses the flesh and body alone? Baptize the soul from wrath and from covetousness, from envy, and from hatred, and, lo, the body is pure.

  Justin Martyr

  Water Of Life, Wrath, Broken

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• A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

  Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

  Religious, Discovery, Atheism

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• A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Spiritual, Horse, Heart

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• The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Jesus, Self, Depth

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.300, Aeterna Press

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• The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Pride

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• O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none receives a gift from the throne of mercy except through thee.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Mother, Thrones, Mercy

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• The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Lonely, Blessed, Heart

  "The Pursuit of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1957.

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• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

  John Calvin

  Self, Two, Ties

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one task. While they still live in the corruption of the flesh they give themselves to that service in which they will persevere when the corruption has been laid aside. And already they come in sight of what the Lord and Savior held out when He said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God' (Mt. 5:8).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Blessed, Heart

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.45, Paulist Press

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• Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

  John Gresham Machen

  Thinking, Differences, Doe

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.

  Maimonides

  Hurt, Fighting, Men

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.11, 1190.

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• There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible to the world dealt with by the so-called "natural" sciences. The idea that knowledge - and, of course, reality - is limited to that world is the single most destructive idea on the stage of life today.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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• If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.

  George Coyne

  Giving, Fundamentals, Belief

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• We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Brain, Empty

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• Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

  Saint Augustine

  Two, World, This World

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• The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Knowing, Ego

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• Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

  George Coyne

  Denial, Research, Scientific Research

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• The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

  George Coyne

  Belief, Process, Investigation

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