Quotes by
Jaroslav Pelikan
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!
Jaroslav Pelikan quote Biography
American clergyman
Jaroslav Pelikan Keywords
Clergyman,
American
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