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I came across this quote from E. Stanley Jones in The Word Became Flesh today and it is too good to not share:
“I shall know as much as I am willing to practice, and no more” (46).
Practice, Practice, Practice
07 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in Ministry
Kevin M. Watson 
This is a wonderful quote from Jones. For when Christ commanded us only to love one another as He loves us, He is challenging his followers to embrace the ways of his unique love and insisting that it become our soul’s complete and comprehensive organizing principle; in other words, we must practice or exert this special love of Christ in our every thought and deed; His special love must therefore first overwhelm and overcome any other influence in our lives and inform our every move and thought. In this way, we shall “know” his message and meaning of love because its loving manner is reified in all that we do. Live in my Love, Christ teaches in John’s Gospel. And we shall “know” of no other way but Christ’s empowering and liberating love, which is eternal. This manner of total embrace constitutes the logos or word becoming flesh in our individual lives and we thence become children of God, reborn in the refreshing spirit of Christ’s everlasting love, as the Prologue of John’s Gospel declares.
jon – thanks for you contribution and thanks for stopping by! I love the phrase, “the soul’s complete and comprehensive organizing principle.”