The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus

by Andrew Klavan

But he who rebels against God’s hierarchy only thinks he will achieve equality and freedom. Without submission to the natural order, there is nothing left but to create new orders by Jacobin force. Rather than the freedom of submission to God’s creation, you are left with a world ruled only by power. It is the paradox of virtue knit into the fabric of reality: you will not be free unless you are virtuous; you cannot be virtuous unless you are free.