on the reading of Holy Scripture

“Doubtless Christ spoke no words in vain. The Eternal Wisdom of God did not utter His voice that we might at once catch up His words in an irreverent manner, think we understand them at a glance, and pass over them. But His words endureth forever; it has a depth of meaning suited to all times and places, and hardly and painfully to be understood in any. They who think they enter into it easily, may be quite sure they do not enter into it at all.”

-Bl. John Henry Newman, from “Knowledge of God’s Will Without Obedience”