Elijah Muhammad
Religious Leader
"Whoever knows himself knows God."
Knowing God quotes
Knowing God
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Kirk Franklin
Musician, Producer
"I know God is working so I smile!"
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God."
D. A. Carson
Theologian
"To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced."
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"We cannot really know God if we do not pray."
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"You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time."
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"we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure."
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"Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him."
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"It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God."
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"The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better."
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"I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God."
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"I want to know God's thoughts."
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"Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him."
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"Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you."
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"In the end, we know God as unknown."
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"In knowing God, each of us also knows himself."
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"Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all."
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"Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ."
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"To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life."
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"As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life."
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"When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way."
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"I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself."
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"The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him."
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"We cannot know God apart from His Word."
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