"...Without the virtue of worship there can be no other virtue, for worship gives everything back up to God, hangs on to nothing and so disallows any finite accumulation which will always engender conflict. Confident worship also knows that in offering it receives back...the temporal...as gift...thereby rendered eternal.

Only the vision and hope of heaven makes us socially and politically just on earth- and how is it, one wonders, that we have ever come to think otherwise?"

John Milbank,
The Word Made Strange,
p. 230-231