do YOU love it that much?

First of all I will confess quite simply; I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions and that we need only to ask repeatedly and a little humbly in order to receive this answer. One cannot just read the Bible like other books, one must be prepared to really inquire of it only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength. One has to inquire of Him. Only if we seek Him will He answer us. Of course it is also possible to read the Bible like any other book that is to say from the point of view of textual criticism, etc. there is nothing to be said against that. Only that that is not the method that will reveal to us the heart of the Bible but only the surface. Just as we do not grasp the words of someone we love by taking them to bits but by simply receiving them. So that for days they go about lingering in our minds simply because they are the words of a person we love. And just as these words reveal more and more of the person who said them as we go on, like Mary, pondering them in our heart so it will be with the words of the Bible. Only if we will venture into the words of the Bible as though this God were speaking to us, who loves us and does not will to leave us alone with our questions. Only so will we learn to rejoice in the Bible. If it is I who determines where God is to be found, then I shall always find a god who corresponds to me in someway, who is obliging, who is connected to my own nature. But if God determines where He is to be found then it will be a place that is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the cross of Christ and whoever would find Him must go to the foot of the cross at the sermon on the mount commands. This is not according to our nature at all. It is entirely contrary to it. But this is the message of the Bible. Not only New but also in the Old Testament. And I would like to tell you now, quite personally, since I have learned to read the Bible in this way, and this has not been for so very long, it becomes every day more wonderful to me. I read in the morning and the evening and often during the day as well. And every day I consider a text which I have chosen for the whole week and tried to sink deeply into it so as really to hear what it is saying. I know without this I could not live properly any longer.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
[from Eric Metaxas' Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy]
I tried to transcript this from the audiobook so may be a little off.