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"I do want, beloved, that you and I should "know Him." I love His precepts, but I love Him better...As the source is ever more valuable than the stream, so is Christ ever better than the best words of His lips, or the best deeds of His hand. I want to know Him. I do care for His actions; my soul would sit down and admire those masterly works of holy art--His miracles of humiliation, of suffering, of patience, and of holy charity; but better far I love the hands which wrought these master-works, the lips which spoke these goodly words, and the heart which heaved with that matchless love which was the cause of all...and when I see that He loved me, and gave Himself for me, it is not enough to know this fact: I want to know Him, the glorious person who does and is all this. I want to know the man who thus gave Himself for me. I want to behold the Lamb once slain for me. I want to rest upon the bosom which covers the heart which was pierced with the spear; I pray Him to kiss me with the kisses of that mouth which cried, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" I love Calvary, the scene of woe, but I love Christ better, the great object of that agony; and even His cross and all His sufferings, dear though these must ever be to the Christian mind, only occupying a second place; the first seat is for Himself..."
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Charles Spurgeon, an excerpt from his sermon "Do You Know Him?" delivered Sunday Morning, January 31st, 1864, on the Scripture "That I may know Him." - Philippians 3:10
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