Coventry Patmore Quotes

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

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

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.

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

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

All things are known to the soul.

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

He who knows about depth knows about God.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Knowing the Self, God is known.