Know Jesus Christ

“Hardly anyone studies the supreme science of Jesus, as did St. Paul (Eph. 3:19). And yet this is the most noble, the most consoling, the most useful and the most vital of all sciences and subjects in heaven and on earth.

...St. John Chrysostom says that our Lord is the summary of all God’s works, the epitome of all the perfections to be found in God and in his creatures (cf. Col. 1:16; 2:9).

‘Jesus Christ is everything that you can and should wish for. Long for him, seek for him, because he is that unique and precious pearl for which you should be ready to sell everything you possess.’

...Happy are those who listen to him; happier still are those who desire him and seek him; but happiest of all are those who keep his laws. Their hearts will be filled with that infinite consolation which is the joy and happiness of the eternal Father and the glory of the angels (cf. Prov. 2:1–9).

...Speaking to eternal Wisdom, the Wise man exclaims, ‘To know you is perfect righteousness and to know your justice and your power is the root of immortality’ (Wisd. 15:3). If we really want to have eternal life let us learn all there is to know about eternal Wisdom.

If we wish to have roots of immortality deeply embedded in our heart we must have in our mind knowledge of eternal Wisdom. To know Jesus Christ incarnate Wisdom, is to know all we need. To presume to know everything and not know him is to know nothing at all.

Of what use is it for an archer to hit the outer part of a target if he cannot hit the centre? What good will it do us to know all the other branches of knowledge necessary for salvation if we do not learn the only essential one, the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, the centre towards which all the other branches of knowledge must tend? Although the great Apostle St. Paul was a man of such extensive knowledge and so well versed in human learning, still he said that he did not know anything except Jesus Christ and him nailed to a cross (1 Cor. 2:2).

Let us then say with him, ‘I count as loss all the knowledge I have prized so highly until now when I compare it to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Savior’ (Phil. 3:7–8). ... ‘Grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (2 Pet. 3:18).”

~St. Louis de Montfort (from The Love of Eternal Wisdom)