"If discipleship requires following Jesus in downward mobility, is this truly a human option? Is it possible to take Jesus totally seriously? Or would that simply mean embarking on a self-destructive, even masochistic, road? I wonder if in practice we haven't already answered this question. haven't we already decided that Jesus cannot be taken at his word, but rather needs to be adapted to our way of upward mobility?"
~Henri Nouwen, The Selfless Way of Christ