Conversion is not an exercise in orthodoxy. Conversion is the heart-wringing process of becoming new — always and regularly and with exhausting consciousness. When we give ourselves to the process of conversion, day after long, long day, we give ourselves to the eternal moment of birth, of being new again. Otherwise we shall surely shrivel, fixed in a state of mind, a state of heart, a phase of life too small for us to breathe, to think, to be.
— Joan Chittister, There Is A Season