"Knowing God" Quotes

What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has, in a way that no other person has.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

To be preoccupied with getting theological knowledge as an end in itself, to approach Bible study with no higher a motive than a desire to know all the answers, is the direct route to a state of self-satisfied self-deception.

God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say.

God never ceases to be the loving and sovereign God that He is; we never cease to be His children, whom He loves and for whom He works all things together for good.

The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which God's grace and love are experienced.

God's love is a reality and not a mere sentiment.

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me.

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it is bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.