Top 1200 Knowing God Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

We all have a purpose in life and I believe this being an activist is mine, so that's one of my driving forces. The second driving force is knowing that I'm actually making a difference to people's lives. Knowing that women are saying that their young daughters are looking up to me now, knowing that I've helped someone to not commit suicide. Getting messages like that are very powerful.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

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

It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.

When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the fulfillment of various works for God, accept these sufferings as sufferings for the name of Christ, and rejoice in your sufferings, thanking God; for the Devil is preparing you, without knowing it himself, the most shining crowns from the Lord.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.

Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's real presence and activity in our daily lives. This has nothing to do with sentiment, thinking religious thoughts or having aesthetic experiences in church buildings; any religion can give you that sort of thing.

I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next step, knowing the next play, knowing how to make things happen.

When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.

God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.

I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. I'm praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked. I'm praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.

Sometimes, knowing when to let go is just as important as knowing when to hold tight.

Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.

It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone. It meant knowing you are property that could be sold to the highest bidder, of value only to continue to support the plantation economy.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.