A couple days ago I posted Chesterton’s answers to these questions:
“What are you?” – God knows
“What is the meaning of the Fall of Man?” – That whatever I am, I am not myself.
Along these same lines, Merton describes how God knows our innermost thoughts – not as an outside observer reading our mind like some kind of alien on Star Trek, or as a lover who we confide our secrets to, but from INSIDE, just as we know ourselves, only without the fall limiting that ability.
God knows us from within ourselves, not as objects, not as strangers, not as intimates, but as our own selves. His knowledge of us in the pure light of which our own self-knowledge is only a dim reflection. He knows us in Himself, not merely as images of something outside Him, but as “selves” in which His own self is expressed. he finds Himself more perfectly in us than we find ourselves.
-Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island, (forgot the reference)