But do not settle down into an attitude of It will never be different. It will be different if only, in earnest, we follow on to know the Lord (Hos. 6:3).
—Amy Carmichael
It is very hard to see how this can be for the best. But we are not asked to see, and why need we, when we know?
—Amy Carmichael
Our Lord has many ways of working. The only thing that can matter is to be obedient to what, so far as we know His will, is His word for us, and to keep to it till He directs otherwise.
—Amy Carmichael
The omnipresent God sees and knows all the properties of the beings that He hath made. He knows all the connections, dependencies, and relations, and all the ways wherein one of them can affect another.
—John Wesley
We know our Lord bears gently with the ignorant and erring, and it is not for us to judge how far the ignorance and error must reach before it passes the confines of His great loving-kindness.
—Amy Carmichael
So fear not, you who are like Joseph when the archers shot at him and wounded him (for the archers know all the tenderest places in our souls at which to shoot). Trust the love that upheld Joseph.
—Amy Carmichael
Speak as knowing God hears you: Walk as knowing God besets you on every side.
—John Wesley
You know that in seeking happiness from riches, you are only striving to drink out of empty cups. And let them be painted and gilded ever so finely, they are empty still.
—John Wesley
Oh to know our God so well that all misunderstandings shall be quite impossible! Paul meant a good deal when he said, That I may know Him (Phil. 3:10)
—Amy Carmichael
How astonishingly little do we know of God!—How small a part of his nature do we know of his essential attributes!
—John Wesley
We know that the temptation to fear is a very old one; millions of people have had it. But they have conquered, and so will you, if you take our Saviour’s words of strength to yourself, and stay yourself on them.
—Amy Carmichael
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
—Mark Twain
“I do not know how it is that we have been kept together in love, helped to abound in labour, and enabled to be firm in the faith, unless it be that special grace has watched over us.”
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
—Cicero
We must believe that God is love & that, being love, He cannot harm us but must ever do us good. Then we must throw ourselves before Him & pray with boldness for whatever we know our good & His glory require, and the cost is no object!
—AW Tozer
I rarely know where I am going in my life’s journey but … I look back & see that God has been leading my every step & I did not even know it.
—AW Tozer
We dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit Himself.
—AW Tozer
Knowledge is power—so much we can understand, at least to a certain extent. All knowing is a triumph of the spirit over matter, a subjection of the earth to the lordship of man. But that knowledge should be life—who can understand that?
—Herman Bavinck
The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
—Thomas Aquinas
It is a great thing to know your vices.
—Cicero
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
—Cicero
All the works of God in nature and grace, in creation and re-creation, and in the world and history enable us to know something of the incomprehensible and lovely nature of God.
—Herman Bavinck
A theologian who is acquainted with all the latest issues of his science but who stands speechless at a sickbed and knows no answer to the questions of the lost sinner’s heart isn’t worthy of his title and office.
—Herman Bavinck
From eternity to eternity he is who he is. There is in him no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17). God is not a process of becoming but an eternal being. He is without beginning and end, but also knows no earlier and later.
—Herman Bavinck
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
—Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
—Albert Einstein
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
—Carl Jung
I rejoiced that he was God, and longed that all should know it, and feel it, and rejoice in it.
—David Brainerd
Blessed be thy name for ever, that thou art God, and that thou wilt glorify thyself. O that the whole world might glorify thee! O let these poor people be brought to know thee, and love thee, for the glory of thy dear ever-blessed name!
—David Brainerd