“We have not been burdened with this world and this flesh in order that we might weasel our way out. Rather, we have been gifted with this world and these bodies because this is where God dwells. All flesh is holy, and the ground of all human endeavors is sacred. It is in these bodies that we will work out our salvation. Human bodies are part of God’s image and the means through which absolutely everything we can learn about God must come to us.”
-Thomas Ryan, Reclaiming the Body in Christian Spirituality (Paulist Press, 2004), p. 24
