"Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ."
—St. Jerome
"With the Scriptures, however, it is not like this. The Gold does not lie before us mixed up with earth. It is gold and only gold.”
— St. John Chrysostom
“I believe most firmly that not one of those authors had erred in writing anything at all…The canonical books are entirely free of falsehood”
— St. Augustine of Hippo
"For (as Saint Augustine says) the knowledge of holy Scripture, is a great, large, and a high place, but the door is very low, so that the high & arrogant man cannot run in: but he must stoop low, and humble himself, that shall enter into it."
—First Book of Homilies: A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading of Holy Scripture