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The choice before us is rather stark: either live to be comfortable (both internally and externally, but especially internally), or live to know God. We can't have it both ways. One choice excludes the other. P91
— Larry Crabb
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
— Dante Alighieri
If God were a theory, the study of theology would be the way to understand Him. But God is alive and in need of love and worship. This is why thinking of God is related to our worship. In an analogy of artistic understanding, we sing to Him before we are able to understand Him. We have to love in order to know. Unless we learn how to sing, unless we know how to love, we will never learn to understand Him.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
— Anonymous
Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
— Anonymous
With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.
— Leland Ryken
Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all things given to us are given in order that we might know their author. This leads us to gratitude for His kindness toward us.
— John Calvin
Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all thing given to us are given in order that we might know their author.
— John Calvin
Gaining understanding is an important first step in effective prayer. An inner prompting will alert you to something your mind does not quite comprehend. At these times just ask the Lord to help you know how He wants you to pray.
— Dutch Sheets
The remaining, less developed characters, were still either listening or laughing. They were divided between curiosity and satisfaction. They felt happy, but did not know it.
— Elias Canetti
With humility, we pursue God and delight to know Him. We increasingly realize that He is our most valuable treasure, and our hearts sing with gratitude
— Zig Ziglar
God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.
— Mahatma Gandhi