A (very) humbling thought from John Owen's The Mortification of Sin:
Notwithstanding all our confidence of high attainments, all our notions of God are but childish in respect of his infinite perfections. We, for the most part, but lisp and babble, and say we know not what, in our most accurate (as we think) conceptions and notions of God. We may love, honor, believe and obey our Father; and therewith He accepts our childish thoughts, for they are but childish. We see but His back parts; we know but little of Him.
We may suppose that we have attained here great knowledge, clear and high thoughts of God; but alas! when He shall bring us into His presence, we shall cry out, we never knew Him as He is; the thousandth part of His glory, and perfection, and blessedness, never entered into our hearts.
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