The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God,
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.
Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.