He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.