Knowledge of the Holy #4

Keeping with the tribute to the incredible literary awesomeness of A.W. Tozer and Frederick William Faber I'd like to post a few more bits from "Knowledge of the Holy".  I spent several hours every Wednesday this past semester discussing this book with some awesome guys.  Here were some of our favorite portions.

This post highlights some of our favorite thoughts from the portion titled, "Something True About God".

The study of the attributes of God, far from being dull and heavy, may for the enlightened Christian be a sweet and absorbing spiritual exercise.  To teh soul that is athirst for God, nothing could be more delightful.

Only to sit and think of God,
   Oh what a joy it is!
To think the thought, to breathe the Name
   Earth has no higher bliss.
                         -- Frederick W. Faber

Glory thine attributes confess,
Glorious all and numberless.

If an attribute is something that is true of God, we may as well not try to enumerate them.

If an attribute is something true of God, it is also something that we can conceive as being true of Him.  God, being infinite, must possess attributes about which we can know nothing.  An attribute, as we can know it, is a mental concept, and intellectual response to God's self-revelation.  It is an answer to a question, the reply God makes to our interrogation concerning Himself.

To our questions God has provided answers; not all the answer, certainly, but enough to satisfy our intellects and ravish our hearts.  These answers he has provided in nature, in the Scriptures, and in the person of His Son.

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