“It is a matter of necessity that we be destroyed and rendered formless, so that Christ  may be formed within us, and Christ alone be in us.... Real mortifications do not  happen in lonely places away from the society of other human beings. No!
They happen in the home, the market place, in secular life.... 'Being conformed to  Christ' is not within our powers to achieve. It is God’s gift, not our own work.”
~ Martin Luther