Divine Knowledge Quotes

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

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.

Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: -- I move not without Thy knowledge!

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

...Nothing puzzles God

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.