'We want to insist on a conviction that is deeply rooted in all Christian tradition: knowledge that does not lead to love is vain. The truth must be a principle of life. No one disagrees in theory, but we often deny it in practice. We all know the real risk of Bible study that becomes nothing but philogy at the scientific level, and a pedantic exercise in the cold accumulation of facts at a textbook level. The very soul of Scripture perishes in such research. Surely that is not why God has spoken.'
Mariano Magrassi, Praying the Bible, p.72.
