The spiritual life, the living out of the life of Christlikeness by the power of the Spirit, is not automatic. It is a learned life that comes from a transformed heart. This new spiritual life, however—which is a joyous affirmation of life, not an escape into a private, withdrawn life—is ordered by the disciplines. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 217.