“On the other hand, whenever a step forward in relations with God involves a fruitful step, it is often because a passage across a barrier with God has been courageous in our self-offering. A risk must be taken in which all security and sense of direction might be lost, and sometimes all security does disappear for a while, both in the interior life and in a worldly sense. Yet crossing a boundary of no return seems to be precisely the kind of spiritual gamble that God likes to see in souls.”

— The Hour of Testing: Spiritual Depth and Insight in a Time of Ecclesial Uncertainty by Donald Haggerty