My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.
Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing