“In the economy of the Body of Christ, this becomes the ruling reality: every sign of love and grace bestowed on any person in the Church is given for the sake of all. The Church is truly the Church when the sanctity, the maturity, the freedom, the heroism of a holy person is understood not as some kind of threat or reproach to my own lack of those qualities but as gifts and resource for me, helping me to become a little less unholy, idle and unheroic than I might otherwise be – both directly, by way of example and inspiration, and less visibly through the self-forgetting prayer and intercession of those gifted by God with holiness.”

Rowan Williams, Passions of the Soul (2024), 67.