Are we approaching our faith through study and hard work to further perfect ourselves each day? Every evening during our prayers do we kneel before God and tell Him of our intellectual progress? If this is so, and it is our primary motivation, He will speak words similar to these back to us; “Yes, but when I walked in the garden this evening where were you?” or “As I have loved you, do you love me?” God wants our journey towards spiritual perfection to be a manifestation of our relationship with Him, and our liturgical and theological perfection in the classroom to be secondary to His ultimate goal which is loving us and seeing that we love Him too.