Bible story

"Our response to life is different if we have been taught only a definition of faith than it is if we have trembled with Abraham as he held the knife over Isaac. Both of these kinds of knowledge are necessary, but in the last four or five centuries we in the Church have over-emphasized the abstract and consequently impoverished our imagination and our capacity for prophetic insight."

Flannery O'Connor, The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South, in Collected Works (New York: The Library of America), p.859.