The process of seeking and of growing in faith requires an opening of our innermost selves; "the Compassionate One wants the heart." But this heart, the inner domain where faith can dwell, is also the part of us that is most vulnerable and therefore kept hidden from all but those we learn to trust most fully. Opening the heart, letting down our guard, is something the self has learned to do only in the intimacy of human relations.
— Arthur Green, Seek My Face