“Most of the things that count about Christianity cannot be counted, like the warmth or coolness of prayer, the resonance or hollowness of scriptural words, the songs or silences of the saints in heaven, the presences or absences in the sacrament.”

“Leigh F. Schmidt, “Mixed Blessings: Christianization and Secularization,” Reviews in.American History 26 (Dec. 1998): 640.

Found in Mark Noll’s The New Shape of World Christianity p. 88