When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.
Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.
We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.
Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.
One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.
What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.
It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.
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.
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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.
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed.
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem.
