Francis Bacon Quotes

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

Man thinks, God directs.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, “I know how you feel.”

All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.