I LOVED this book. Amazing. The friend who recommended it told me it would cause me to question my faith, but I think it strengthened my faith. What an amazing story of one man, a Jesuit priest, going from an intellectual relationship with God to a personal relationship with God. And written by someone who is not overtly Christian. Awesome. (R-rated, though. FYI.) And did I mention it's science fiction? (I totally recommend it, Andrew. Strongly.)
"I made a cloister of my body and a garden of my soul, Your Holiness. The stones of the cloister wall were my nights, and my days were the mortar . . . Year after year, I built the walls. But in the center I made a garden that I left open to heaven, and I invited God to walk there. And God came to me . . . God filled me, and the rapture of those moments was so pure and powerful that the cloister walls were leveled. I had no more need for walls, Your Holiness. God was my protection. I could look into the face of the wife I would never have, and love all wives. I could look into the face of the husband I would never be, and love all husbands. I could dance at weddings because I was in love with God, and all the children were mine." --The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
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