Quotes about Knowing

Learning is intelligence.Knowing is understanding.Practicing is wisdom.Teaching is virtue.

Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be known and to do things for which it will be praised and admired. But grace does not care to hear news or curious matters, because all this arises from the old corruption of man, since there is nothing new, nothing lasting on earth.

Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.

He would hope to find us suffering proudly—not miserably—knowing how to die.

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of the claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transiencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past the men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and wales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

Confidence and ambition are the most attractive qualities to me, and knowing what you want and being upfront about it is a big part of that.

The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

THOSE WHO REALLY do know Christ in the modern world do so by seeking and entering the kingdom of God.

To know Christ in the modern world is to know him in your world now. To know him in your world now is to live interactively with him right where you are in your daily activities. This is the spiritual life in Christ.

In feelings we really know that something is "there," and solidly so. But what it is and why it is remains obscure—though hauntingly present.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say 'I cast out devils, and Jesus will say 'I never knew you.