Quotes about Knowledge
We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the Great Romance we once had. But now I think the knowledge of Elyon is starting to work its way into me again--in both realities...If Elyon's real there, surely God must be real here.
— Ted Dekker
There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.
— Ted Dekker
It is surrendering what we think we know about the Father so we can truly know him.
— Ted Dekker
To know. Not to know about.
— Ted Dekker
I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come—a tremendously liberating knowledge.
— Ted Dekker
You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free, for in that Truth you are free already.
— Ted Dekker
For the sake of the world, they had to cling to what they knew, not what their emotions demanded from them.
— Ted Dekker
In the first garden, the first Adam, me, had said, Not your will, but mine, and eaten of the knowledge of good and evil, which was judgment and grievance. In the second garden, the second Adam, Yeshua, had said, Not my will, but yours, and surrendered his life.
— Ted Dekker
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
— Julian of Norwich
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
— Karl Barth
Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.
— Francine Rivers
PC advocates deny the existence of objective knowledge and morality, and thus see no point in employing moral suasion and logical argument to convince their fellow citizens that their viewpoint is correct. Their only means available is therefore using the instruments of political power, such as coercion, intimidation, marginalization, and name-calling. To put it philosophically: Ideas are not the power by which to change the world, but rather, the world's ideas are changed by power.
— Francis J. Beckwith