Quotes About Knowing

Although some we rarely see, the thought of them is comforting, like the pleasure of knowing there is a mooring somewhere, if occasionally we want to sail into port.

The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that we know it is all meaningless, and say so, while they know it equally and will never say so.

Yet the knowledge of what is possible lives on inside each of us, inextinguishable. Let us trust this knowing, hold each other in it, and organize our lives around it. Do we really have any choice, as the old world falls apart? Shall we settle for anything less than a sacred world?

O God, before I was born, You knew me. You knew my strengths and weaknesses, my successes and failures. Yet You love me with an unconditional, everlasting love. How I thank You!

only you really know yourself and only you can really make your decisions.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

And yet, it's still more important for people to know God than to know about God, to experience the friendship of Jesus than to know about the theoretical possibility of the friendship of Jesus.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

The pressures on children today were not good, it seemed to him. A frankness about sex and drugs, explicit newspapers, four-letter words tossed from the television. A different type of child, more knowing but less loveable, was being created.

Conversation… is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all.

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.

I'ts the simple pleasure of knowing, I am in love with you.

It's crazy what our hearts accept when knowing how much pain it will cause. I'd rather show someone love then to hold that in, even if they don't love me back. I know how to love but I don't know how to believe I'm loved when the actions prove what love is not.

I wish I had all the answers," he said. "Like knowing the mind of God. I'd love to get in on that.

They're interested in knowing why you're so interested in knowing whether any Jedi were here during the battle, Cudgel explained to Starstone and the others while the quartet of armed Wookiees glared down at them.

And by the way, you clearly don't know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

ritual reenactment of how the church comes to know who it is, who God is, and what God calls it to be. How does the church find guidance from God? It prayerfully goes to Scripture and then wrestles with the meaning of what it finds there. Biblical preaching models this way of knowing. Biblical

We have felt that we came to know God by means of these thoughts and images, but in reality it is impossible for the infinite God to be captured by our finite thoughts, images, and feelings. Now, when everything suddenly becomes dark, when our ordinary ways of knowing are blinded, it is because the light of God has suddenly been turned on

Tell someone to stop sinning and at best they may do so reluctantly and partially. But give them a vision of knowing God and his glory, and they'll gladly root out all that gets in the way of their relationship with God (Hebrews 12:1–3).

that human life is an opportunity to come to know God, but that to fulfil this divine purpose we must cease to be enslaved by the body.