Every bishop is called first to be a witness of Christ among his people, not just through words that's the easy part but in the outline of his entire life. But above all, like a good father in any family, they must model a surrender to the demands of love, to the people they love, and to the God who is love. Our lives are spent reaching for that beauty. But creation is so very great, and we're so very small . I will tell you why.
Faith gives meaning.
Faith is not doctrines, though these are essential. Faith is not sentiment, or knowledge, or law, though all these play a vital role in our life of faith. Bishops preach this good news. But the irony, as C.S. Lewis once wrote, is that the hardest thing to believe is that which we have just preached or defended to another. Giving the truth away leaves an empty place in the heart.