You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.
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