But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The line expresses a distinctly van Gogh–like spirituality grounded in lived experience rather than doctrine: knowledge of God is approached through expansive, active love—of people, nature, work, and the ordinary world. It implies that devotion is not primarily intellectual or institutional but relational and practical, cultivated by widening one’s capacity for affection and attention. In the context of van Gogh’s life—his intense empathy for laborers and the poor, his early religious aspirations, and his later vocation as an artist—the sentiment also reads as an aesthetic credo: to love “many things” is to look closely, to care, and to find the sacred in multiplicity. The quote thus links ethics, perception, and faith.