Proper reading of the scriptures is not a technical exercise that can be learned; it is something that grows or diminishes according to one’s own spiritual frame of mind. The crude, ponderous rendition of the Bible by many a Christian grown old in experience often far surpasses the most highly polished reading of a minister.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer in “Life Together” HarperSanFrancisco, 1954 p56-57