Quotes on Knowing God

. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

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

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.