"We understand what is meant by not pulling up the cockle lest we destroy the good grain. And the complexity and diversity of the needs that Christ wishes to experience in men make us realise why it is that He uses such strange material for His purpose; why it is that lives which, judged by our standards, are tragic and frustrated my, in fact, be the most glorious. In this searching we become integrated ourselves. It gathers us together and makes us whole." The Reed of God, Caryll Houselander