Status Updates From The Weight of Glory

“To call [war] useless because it did not also cure slums and unemployment is like coming up to a man who has just succeeded in defending himself from a man-eating tiger and saying, ‘It’s no good, old chap. This hasn’t really cured your rheumatism!’” -Pg 74

“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.” -Pg 58

“Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the gospels, it would seem that our Lord find our desires not too strong, but too weak.” -Pg 26

“[Today, people think the highest virtue is unselfishness.] The negative idea of unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. I do not think this is the Christian virtue of love.”
-Pg 25