The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.
C. S. LewisProsperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
C. S. Lewis