If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart.

If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

- St. John Cassian, Conferences,