'If you and I are heart-soul-mind-strength complexes designed for love, we need a place where we can exercise our fundamental capacities - a place where we can channel our emotions and longings, be known in our unique depth of self, contribute to understanding and interpreting the world, and apply our bodies' strength and agility to worthwhile work in all three planes of physical reality. Above all, we need a place where we can invest ourselves deeply in others, come to care about their flourishing, and give ourselves away in mutual service and sacrifice in ways that secure our own identities instead of erasing them.'
Andy Crouch, The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming relationship in a technological world, p.150.
