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These are a few more quotes from  Knowing God by J.I Packer.  Packer’s book may be the best read for those who wish to get to know God better. The quotes below are not only a taste of the book but a challenge and pathway to getting to know God better. It will be profitable for you to meditate on one or a few sentences or phrases at a time.

 

“The modern way with God is to set him at a distance.   

 

THE STUDY OF GOD

  • He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe.

  • Nothing will so enlarge the intellect... as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity. 

  • Would you lose your sorrow?  Would you drown your cares?  Plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea... you shall come forth... refreshed and invigorated. 

  • Disregard the study of God... sentence yourself... no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.  

  • Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. We shall have to take note of what pleases Him, what offends Him, what awakens His wrath, what affords Him satisfaction and joy.  God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.  

  • Knowledge puffeth up.  

  • Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God Himself the better.   (We must) enlarge our acquaintance... with the living God.  

  • We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.  

  • Turn each truth... into matter for meditation before God.  

  • Its effect is ever to humble us, as we contemplate God's greatness and glory, and our own littleness and sinfulness.

 

EFFECTS OF KNOWING GOD

Those who really know God... never brood on might- have- beens; they never think of the things they have missed, only of what they have gained.  A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him.

   First, one can know a great deal about God without much knowledge of Him.

   Second, one can know a great deal about godliness without much knowledge of God.  We have known God, and that because we have known God the unpleasantness we have had, or the pleasantness we have not had, through being Christians does not matter to us.   We have said that when a man knows God, losses and 'crosses' cease to matter to him; what he has gained simply banishes these things from his mind.

 

Qualities of Those Who Know God

  •    Those who know God have great energy for God.  

  •    Those who know God have great thoughts of God.  

  •    Those who know God show great boldness for God.

  •    Those who know God have great contentment in God.  

 

First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God.  

Second, we must seek the Savior.

  

KNOWING GOD

  • What were we made for?  To know God. 

  • What aim should we set ourselves in life?  To know God. 

  • What is the 'eternal life' that Jesus gives? Knowledge of God.  

  • What is the best thing in life, bringing more joy, delight, and contentment, than anything else?  Knowledge of God.  

  • 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.”