Christian monks and nuns have been living parables of discipline for a millennium and a half. Their insight into discipline and its intimate, essential relationship to spontaneity is captured unforgettably in a single sentence at the end of the Prologue to the Rule of Benedict, the charter for their way of life — "As we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God's commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love."
— Patrick Henry, The Ironic Christian's Companion