Paul’s Reviews > The Hour of Testing: Spiritual Depth and Insight in a Time of Ecclesial Uncertainty > Status Update

“A sense of interior darkness may permeate prayer, but this is not a darkness of doubt or questioning. It is simply an inability to see what is loved intensely, like a man who has gone blind in his late years and sits quietly with his beloved wife.”

“The possibility that the greatest blessing is to be invited into some painful alignment of our life with a life of Jesus in his passion is hardly considered. It is an important courage to cultivate: if we offer ourselves to this deeper blessing, we are bound to taste some of the dust of Calvary in our mouth.”