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Quotes About Knowing

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
~ Jim Elliot
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
~ Karl Rahner
God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.
~ Judah Smith
The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.
~ James Merritt
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.
~ J. I. Packer
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
~ Saint Angela of Foligno
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
~ John Stott
I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
~ Eddie Griffin
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
~ A. B. Simpson
Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.
~ Billy Graham
Knowing the Self, God is known.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.
~ Chip Ingram
God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
~ Meister Eckhart
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
~ Alan Redpath
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
~ Meister Eckhart
I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.
~ Philip Yancey
For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.
~ Watchman Nee
Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.
~ Rajneesh
Why is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.
~ Karen Wheaton
Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, "I know how you feel."
~ Henry B. Eyring
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
~ John Stott
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace
~ Rumi