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The fundamentals of Christian spirituality lie in the triune God that is the center of Christian faith. In Ronald Rolheiser's book, The Holy Longing, he strives to give the reader a deeper understanding of and ability to practice this Christian spirituality and its different dimensions within the reader's life. It is the way he does this, piece by piece, without making any assumptions about any aspect of spirituality that makes his book an effective tool …

…on the world. To take these four pillars and use them as a basis for every action and as a building block for character, one is going to be a person of high spiritual morality, thus being a member of God's community and a part of his economy of salvation. To take these pillars into one's life is where the real difficulty comes in because the genuineness they command and the taxing steps they entail.