'We will be spiritually safe in our use of the Bible if we follow a simple rule: Read in a submissive manner. Read with readiness to surrender all you are, all your plans, opinions, possessions, positions. Study as intelligently as possible, with all available means, but never merely to find the truth, and still less merely to prove something. Subordinate your desire to find the truth to your desire to do it, act it out!'
Dallas Willard, Hearing God, p.155.
