The loss of a sense of transcendence among today’s believers has caused incalculable harm to Christian spirituality and to the interior life of individual Christians... Quiet time is often not quiet. Our designated prayer time is generally consumed by hurried meditation on a scripture passage, a run through the Rolodex of persons to intercede/petition for, and occasional expressions of gratitude for the gifts of our lives—faith, health, family, and friends. The inner urgency to fall prostrate before the Infinite rarely intrudes on our consciousness.
-Brennan Manning
