God needs spaces within us.

Here one sister celebrated sixty years of service. I preached about Emmental cheese. It must mature and age, the holes in it are so mysterious. In our old age, the solidity in it, our endeavors, becomes less useful, the holes enlarge until they become spaces. God needs spaces in us, not just small holes, as is the case with Emmental cheese.

(P. Vladimír Koudelka OP /1919–2003/, correspondence, letter from November 10, 1997)