The Bible tells us very clearly that to “know” God is not an affair of the mind only, but an act in which our whole being — heart, mind, and will — is vitally engaged; so that sheer intellectual speculation would enable us to form certain ideas about God but never to know Him. To be grasped, God’s will must be met with a readiness to obey.

…Suzanne de Diétrich (1891-1981), Discovering the Bible
Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey —
whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

…Romans 6:16,17 (NIV),Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624