Real Contact with God

[The unchristian environment] is the place
where we find out whether the Christian's
meditation has led him into the unreal, from
which he awakens in terror when he returns
to the workaday world, or whether it has led
him into a real contact with God, from which
he emerges strengthened and purified. Has it
transported him for a moment into a spiritual
ecstasy that vanishes when everyday life returns,
or has it lodged the Word of God so securely
and deeply in his heart that it holds and fortifies
him, impelling him to active love, to obedience,
to good works? Only the day can decide.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer