Knowledge Of God quotes
38 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks."
"True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self."
"I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God."
"All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience."
"Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature."
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"Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God."
"The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer."
"Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves."
"Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love."
"Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves."
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
"Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God."
"It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love."
"The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God."
"Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world."
"We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart."
