Daniel Goodman

“If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”
― William Law

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

“The idea of autonomy denies that we are born into a world that existed prior to us. It posits an essential aloneness; an autonomous being is free in the sense that a being severed from all others is free. To regard oneself this way is to betray the natural debts we owe to the world, and commit the moral error of ingratitude. For in fact we are basically dependent beings: one upon another, and each on a world that is of our making.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work