“In a perichoretic world, the gift need not displace the Giver, as though they were two billiard balls. In the material world, the space that one object occupies is space that another object cannot occupy. We carry our assumptions about this over into the spiritual world, and we consequently assume that if we are thinking about meat on the grill, bees in the honeysuckle, a sweet wife in bed, beer in a frosted glass, or a full tank of gas and lots of Wyoming ahead, then we cannot be thinking about God also, or be living in gratitude before Him. But I don’t believe this is the case at all.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, pp. 47-48

“There are two sacraments, true, there is is only one sacramental. The world is that sacramental, and everything in it. Grace is everywhere and gets into everything. Faith can dig it out of anything. The grandeur of God can flame out from anything, like the shining from shook foil.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 40.

“He rose from the dead in this world in order to redeem everything about it, beer and bacon included.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 39

“At the end of the day, refined hedonism just creates snobs. Sure, they don’t find their pleasures in carousing, snorting cocaine, chasing skirts, and whatnot, but rather in taking a stroll through a miniature Japanese garden on a pleasant summer evening, in order to contemplate geometric proofs and chess moves of a higher order. And they are insufferable.”

Chestertonian Calvinism, p. 39