"Good people are good," William Saroyan wrote, "because they come to wisdom through failure." Struggle is the soul's ash heap of failure, of not being in charge, of not being on top, of not being sure that we will really survive, this wrestling match with God by which we are being currently consumed.
— William Saroyan, Joan Chittister, Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Joan Chittister