The Letter and the Spirit of Scripture
ONLY when the commands of the Bible have become the soul of morality; only when its sublime truths have been translated out of verbal phrase into spiritual apprehension; only when its laws have ceased to be legislation and become inherent conscience; only when its faith has ceased to be belief and become, conviction and impulse,—only when these things have occurred, have we received what God intended we should from his holy word; and when these have been received the letter has answered its purpose, the reign of it has ceased; and in its place, and carrying on and up the superstructure of spiritual education, the foundation of which it laid, the spirit is substituted. And he who is a spirit is worshiped, not by the ceremony and enactment of the letter, but in spirit and in truth.—Murray.