Thomas’s Reviews > Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder > Status Update

“When I married I became very rich. It used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when others had nothing. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor have always been the favorites of God and his saints, but I believe that it is one of the special achievements of grace to sanctify the whole of life, riches included.”