Good theology forces detours that divert us from our stated goals and prompt us to visit places and include people that would otherwise be left aside.  The measure of this strength is charity.  Theological detours are worth only as much charity as they are able to show.  They are worth only as many waylaid lives and lost objects as they are able to embrace...Charity is a willingness to have our lives made difficult by people we did not have to help, objects we did not have to save, thoughts we did not have to think.

-Adam S. Miller, Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays on Mormon Theology (pgs. xiv-xv)