Would you like to make an institution Christian? Then make it a marriage.
Marriage makes virtue possible by making it necessary. One can indulge the illusion that virtue is “good behavior” when one is a child; make a kind merit-badge of it when one is a young man; fantasize about virtue as “growth in self-mastery” deep into one’s twenties; but the married man is not virtuous because he would like to be but because he has freely chosen a situation in which the lack of virtue means—hell! Instant hell.
Be a selfish jerk at a Waffle House—no demon will rise from the ground to remind you of the ultimate end of your actions. Pejure yourself in a court of law—you’ll get away with it. But be a selfish jerk around the family table, and you’ll already feel the infernal heat; the shift of temperature; the sudden isolation of your being from itself, as your wife and children look on you with horror.
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