…we search for an experience of God, a relationship, that is both large enough—and intimate enough—to counter the disorientation, dizziness, and sense of displacement we feel…. We seek … a place for an experience of the Divine within it, a new sense of our true home, of our cherished place in the cosmos and on this planet, a spiritual space large enough to contain all of our fears and our hopes, our questions and our bewilderment….
Margaret Swedish, Living beyond the “End of the World”: A Spirituality of Hope (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008), 158, 160–161.