I Haven't Even Read Everything I Wrote.

There Is A Notion That Complete Impartiality Is The Most Fitting And Indeed The Normal Disposition For True Exegesis , Because It Guarantees Complete Absence Of Prejudice. For A Short Time, Around 1910, This Idea Threatened To Achieve Almost A Canonical Status In Protestant Theology. But Now, We Can Quite Calmly Describe It As Merely Comical.

The Theologian Who Labors Without Joy Is Not A Theologian At All. Sulky Faces, Morose Thoughts And Boring Ways Of Speaking Are Intolerable In This Field.

Joy Is The Simplest Form Of Gratitude.

Prayer Without Study Would Be Empty. Study Without Prayer Would Be Blind.

The Theologian Who Labours Without Joy Is Not A Theologian At All.