It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. . . . But we must not use the Bible (our fathers too often did) as a sort of Encyclopedia out of which texts (isolated from their context and not read with attention to the whole nature and purport of the books in which they occur) can be taken for use as weapons. — C. S. Lewis, Letter to “Mrs. Ashton” [1]

[1] C. S. Lewis, Letters of C.S. Lewis, ed. W. H. Lewis and Walter Hooper (New York, NY: HarperOne, 2017), 549.