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Quotes About Knowing

The more open you are within, the more capacity you will have to know, to see, and to love.
~ John de Ruiter
Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you've realized, you love, and you are reached.
~ John de Ruiter
We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.
~ Kevin DeYoung
But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall . . ." She faltered. "Love you from a safe distance," he finished. "Yes.
~ Melissa Marr
Probably, your first reaction is but don't do that, and I agree. However, such code does get written, so it is worth knowing how it is implemented.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.
~ Bob Dylan
Dark and intense. Powerfully magnetic and hotly sexual. Yes, I knew how he was.
~ Sylvia Day
With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.
~ Sylvia Plath
Barely dampered by virginity or unpractice, their bodies seemed to know each other as their souls had seemed to.
~ Tanith Lee
Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher
~ Ted Dekker
He was bitten with the bug. His curiosity was turning. His desire was outpacing his satisfaction. He'd gone to the Crossing because he was tired of not knowing. Well, now he knew, all right. The only question was, How much knowledge would suffice? And for how long?
~ Ted Dekker
The path into this eternal realm is faith—belief in, not about, Yeshua. Intimately knowing the father, not merely knowing about him with the mind. Even the devils know all about God and it profits them nothing. Even calling him Lord and doing many miraculous works in his name means little. Only knowing him intimately, as an infant knows.
~ Ted Dekker
It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul...God is nearer to us than our soul, for He is the ground in which it stands...so if we want to know our own soul, and enjoy its fellowship, it is necessary to seek it in our Lord God.
~ Julian of Norwich
But we can't change the past. Imagining what might have been is a pointless exercise. That much, I knew. Rationally, at least. Emotionally, it was another issue altogether,
~ Julianne MacLean
He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.
~ Julie Anne Long
Something irrevocable had happened, beyond knowing. He looked down at the body. He had felt her soul leaving her. It had brushed him like a breeze, only a breeze that was inside him, made of words. Thank you, thank you. I am free.
~ Justin Cronin
So it is also that in the act of knowing, to the extent that we know something truly, we know it as created, that is, as having its origin and its sustaining existence in God. 7 To claim to know something while thinking it to be independent of God (or to deny that there is a God) is to fail to know it for what it really is. Whatever it is, it is created and sustained by God at every moment.
~ K. Scott Oliphint
Realization, in its fullest meaning, is not merely knowing something, but making it real in oneself. We come to this essential Self through a process of deconditioning, reconditioning, and unconditioning. This can also be described as minimizing what is negative, increasing what is positive, and, ultimately, opening to Spirit.
~ Kabir Edmund Helminski
The soul is a knowing substance that knows the Reality beyond time and space. To acquire this kind of knowing is to become illuminated, to be connected to a greater intelligence that will guide every step of your life. Instead of living in fear and uncertainty, you will more and more be able to trust the unfolding of Life. (p. 78)
~ Kabir Edmund Helminski
This is a world," he said, "in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do, to his friends and his tradition and his love, lest he be dissolved in a universal confusion and know nothing and love nothing. . . .
~ Kai Bird
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
~ Timothy Morton
People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
~ Lorde
It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.
~ Christopher Guest
Questions that start with 'why' are the toughest to answer," Dale said. "You end up guessing more than knowing.
~ Brandon Mull