“Scholarship, too, both biblical and otherwise, is certainly important to the individual and to the church as a whole. It is a part of our part in responsible living before God. But it can never stand in the place of experience of the living voice of God, and it cannot remedy or remove our fallibility.”

Willard, Dallas. Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God. Updated and expanded by Jan Johnson. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2012, p. 239