He realized his lack of knowledge formed the basis of his unbelief. As Lewis explained in a letter written shortly after his transition, “What has been holding me back . . . has not been so much a difficulty in believing as a difficulty in knowing . . . you can’t believe a thing while you are ignorant what the thing is.”

Nicholi, Armand (2002-04-03). The Question of God (p. 93). Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

To know God's love is indeed heaven on earth. And the New Testament sets forth this knowledge, not as the privilege of a favored few, but as a normal part of ordinary Christian experience, something to which only the spiritually unhealthy or malformed will be strangers

Knowing God, Packer, pg 118

to approach Bible Study with no higher a motive than a desire to know all the answers, is the direct route to a state of self-satisfied self-deception 


Knowing God, Packer, pg 22

So we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it. The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. 


Knowing God, Packer, pg 19