“The call to simplicity and freedom for Christians is the call to move from achievement oriented spirituality to a life centered on a shared vision of relatedness to people and things, a relatedness of gentleness, of compassion, of belonging to one another.”
Richard Bower as cited in Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective ed. Michael Schut (Harrisburg: Morehouse, 2008), p. 18.