"He revealed it to us because He loves men and so wants not only to be served by them but truly known by them. It is the surest mark of love to want to be known."
This is why I want to study Theology. I love my God more than anything and so I want to know Him as well as I can. My finite little mind will never know everything that He is but I do love gaining new knowledge of Him. The more I know of Him the more deeply I love Him and am in awe of Him.
Beautiful :) That's the same reason I love to study theology. The whole end of studying God and His Nature and action is to the final place of loving Him deeper, and being more absorbed in His love for you as Beloved. St. Thomas Aquinas said that to know God means to take it down to your mental level and to make the idea of Him more like yourself, more like what you can comprehend. But to love Him is to be made like Him, because when you love someone, you become more like them. Through all theology, the Triune God calls us further into His essence which is Love itself.
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