quote of the day

"We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent.  This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience.  Sometimes it is, as W. H. Auden described it, a matter of '[choosing] what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.'"

Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), 84.