We are given a sensual life, an imaginative life, an affective life, and a noetic life, and each of these features of selfhood has to pass through transformation and purification en route to the vision of God.

PRAYER AS DIVINE PROPULSION: AN INTERVIEW WITH SARAH COAKLEY, PART I

The laboratory check for spiritual experience is life itself, and it is exactly here in the most appallingly dangerous and painful situations, that I have found faith both sure and radiant. 

 J.B. Phillips. RING OF TRUTH.

'Orthodoxy' as mere propositional assent needs to be distinguished from 'orthodoxy' as a demanding, and ongoing, spiritual project, in which the language of the creeds is personally and progressively assimilated.

Sarah Coakley. GOD, SEXUALITY, AND THE SELF.