Quotes about Knowing

But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.

I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

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

3But You, O LORD, dknow me; You have seen me, And You have etested my heart toward You.

If we go to the depths of anything, we will begin to knock upon something substantial, "real," and with a timeless quality to it. We will move from the starter kit of "belief" to an actual inner knowing. This is most especially true if we have ever (1) loved deeply, (2) accompanied someone through the mystery of dying, (3) or stood in genuine life-changing awe before mystery, time, or beauty.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of memory, not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism "thinking