The spiritual life is always an imperfect struggle toward the perfection accomplished only by God himself in Jesus Christ by the Spirit. In spite of all our failures, one man eternally represents us, and we who trust in him are perfected already. Therefore, we can embrace our calling to an embodied spirituality with the abandonment of heartfelt passion, participating in God’s vision for our life in God’s world. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 195.