You cannot say, of a chapter in the Gospel, “This is terrific.” It is indecent to call the Bible wonderful. It would be indecent too to say “My mother is a wonderful person.” And so you cannot praise Christ the way you would praise a mere human being. You have to fall on your face and cry out for mercy: the only way you can talk about God is to “confess”—confessio Laudis—either that or else confession of your shame. If Christ is merely interesting to you, or merely admirable—what will become of your miserable soul?
