The soul outweighs the world, Homily, 29th August

“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”

We have heard the sentence so often that we have perhaps ceased to notice its extravagance.

Christ places the entire world on one side of the scale.

Every empire. Every pleasure. Every fortune. Every human honour.

Everything that people have killed to possess.

And on the other side: one immortal soul. The soul outweighs the world.

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