Chinua Achebe Quotes

God doesn't know things. He is things.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

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

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

Being God would be the ultimate.

God is bigger than people think.

Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.

I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Your thoughts of God are too human

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.

Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.