If you are someone who is critical, seeks the truth, and is eager for knowledge, I will ask you what you would have done if a saint, an angel, or Mary had stood before you and said:

"Write - take the Bible - read section after section - we are going to work through these books."

Would you have said yes? Would you have written everything down?

I needed time to say yes, and  then I began to work. I read the Bible, as much as I could survey at a time, section after section. Then I went into church - prayed - and started to write. Read the words critically - seeking the truth - and you will be enriched.

Joa Bolendas, 1987 (So That You May Be One, Bolendas,1997: p. 240)