Saint Augustine (354–430)

“Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in You.”

— Saint Augustine (354–430)

A healthy relationship with God must begin with an intellectual knowledge of who He is, which then matures into a deeper personal experience of knowing God in life. God manifests Himself to us on the mountain peaks, in the valleys, in the swamps—in all aspects of our lives.

— Gary E. Vincelette

Basic Theology: Applied, Wesley & Elaine Willis, John & Janet Masters, editors, Victor Books, Wheaton, IL, p. 15.

The world becomes a strange, mad, and painful place and life in it is 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 blindfold 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.

—J. I. Packer

J. I. Packer

Knowing God, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL, 1973, pp. 14-15

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

— Thomas Aquinas(1225-1274)

Two Precepts of Charity (1273)

Quotes: Knowing God?