Bon Mots

 He Thought It an Impertinence, Sir

The story is recounted of Benjamin Jowett, when he was Master of Balliol College in Oxford.  Apparently someone asked him at dinner, "Dr. Jowett, we would like to know what your opinion of God is," to which he is said to have replied, "I should think it a great impertinence were I to express my opinion about God.  The only constant anxiety of my life is to know what is Gods' opinion of me."  [Christopher Ash, Job: The Wisdom of the Cross (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2014), p.374.]