When the Bible talks about knowing God, it does not mean knowing certain ideas about Him, but knowing Him personally. The word know in Hebrew means knowledge that comes from a close, personal relationship. ‘This is eternal life that they may know Thee – the only true God – and Jesus Christ Whom Thou hast sent.’ “Know Thee,” not ‘about Thee.’ Knowing about God or Christ does not save, does not give eternal life. Knowing Christ does.
Life
Steve Sawyer
Life is like a dot on a line that runs for eternity in both directions. Whatever is happening on that dot seems huge, whether it is AIDS, cirrhosis, getting bad grades or being lonely. But when you step back and recognize you don’t have just that dot, you have the whole line, [then] everything in that dot – AIDS, whatever, may seem horrible, but it’s not. It’s just a snap in a life of eternity.
Stephen Charnock
No one switches spirits may be believers. There is a manifest distinction made between faith in Christ and the comfort of that faith, between believing to eternal life and knowing we have eternal life. There is a difference between a child’s having a right to an estate and his full knowledge of the title.
Billy Graham Organization
The way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.
Billy Graham, Facing Death and the Life After
Francis Frangipane
There are times when life, like a river, is over your head and you feel like you are drowning. Yet, the water from these very rivers wash away your filth. What the water does not remove, the fire purifies.