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“A lot of people seem to think that the point of the moral life is continence, as if we were made for a lifetime’s tool of scales, arpeggios, and etudes. In fact, the point of the moral life is virtue. We are made for concert performance. We are made to fire on all cylinders and to do so as if effortlessly.”

This book makes me want a life of virtue (& hope that it’s possible)!

“This life is not a place of arrival. It is a place of departure. There is nothing here upon which we can hang our whole heart’s love. There is only one goal and horizon of ultimate meaning for us: We are made for God, and ‘our hearts are restless until they rest in him.’”

“Cannot you be grateful for the road though it be rough and uncertain? It does all a road was ever made to do. It takes you home.”