To Know or To Love

“St. Thomas says that it is better to know a stone than to love a stone but better to love God than to know God, because love conforms the lover to the beloved, while knowledge conforms the known object to the way-of-knowing of the knower. ...When we know God, we drag him down to our anthropomorphic level, we make God more humanoid than he really is; but when we love God, we are raised up more closely to his level, we become more God-like than we were (for ‘God is love’).

Humility (‘humbling’) goes with love. Therefore, although knowledge (‘teaching’) is the best relation to nature, love and humility (‘humbling’) are the best relation to God.

And man. Who knows you best: the intellectual who does not love you or your dear friend who is not too bright but loves you deeply? No contest.”
~Peter Kreeft