Omniscience Quotes

• God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Profound, Saint

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• It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Trust, Yield, Why Not

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• Remember that thought is speech before God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Speech, Remember

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• When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untempered by grace; omniscience is only taunting if it is unaccompanied by mercy; and immutability is only torturous if there is no guarantee of goodwill.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Gratitude, Father, Grace

  Ravi Zacharias (2002). “Cries of The Heart”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

  Stephen Charnock

  Eye, Hands, Delight

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• God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Destiny, Eternity

  Peter Kreeft (2004). “The God who Loves You: "love Divine, All Loves Excelling"”, p.149, Ignatius Press

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• There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Kind, Trifles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

  Jennifer Lee Carrell

  Knowledge, Quality, Excellent

  Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.57, Penguin

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• As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Offering, Advice

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• Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Long Ago, Omnipotence

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.23, Courier Dover Publications

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• Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

  Richard Dawkins

  Omnipotence, Mind, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Reason, Should, Parameters

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• Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Omnipotence, Circles

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• Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

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• O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice. I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You.

  Paulo Coelho

  Determination, Father, Love You

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• Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

  Ayn Rand

  Errors, Demand, Morality

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.72, Penguin

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• Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Genius

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.4, e-artnow

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• All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Learning, Men, Specialists

  1917 His Last Bow,'Bruce-Partington Plans'.

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• To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

  Sissela Bok

  Self, Growth, Realizing

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage

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• For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Regret, Hate, Grief

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ocean, Thinking, Vanity

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• Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancor. He has very little benevolence toward men and becomes... furious and... spiteful... when anyone dares question the omniscience of the divinity whom he adores, that is to say, Mr. Marx himself.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Religion, Ordinary

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to higher grades of being. The first fiat of Creation which went forth, doubtlessly ensured the perfect adaptation of animals to the surrounding media; and thus, whilst the geologist recognizes a beginning, he can see in the innumerable facts of the eye of the earliest crustacean, the same evidences of Omniscience as in the completion of the vertebrate form.

  Roderick Murchison

  Eye, Science, Animal

  Roderick Impey Murchison (1854). “Siluria the History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth by Roderick Impey Murchison”, p.469

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• The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Errors, Wisest Man

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.61

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