A Few Thoughts on Knowing God

Joseph Smith:
"The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out." (History of the Church, 3:295)

Thomas Merton:
“This then is what it means to seek God perfectly: to withdraw from illusion and pleasure, from worldly anxieties and desires, from the works that God does not want, from a glory that is only human display; to keep my mind free from confusion in order that my liberty may be always at the disposal of His will; to entertain silence in my heart and listen for the voice of God; to cultivate an intellectual freedom from the images of created things in order to receive the secret contact of God in obscure love; to love all men as myself...”
(New Seeds of Contemplation, 1972. Pages 45-46.)