Michael Knowles

You have to habitually practice virtue.

such that your heart increasingly desires what God desires generally and for you.

But if you allow your heart to follow only your own wisdom, if you allow your heart to go off on the path of perversity, then you'll say, as many an adulterer has, that the heart wants what the heart wants, to excuse all manner of sin that will ruin your life.

The heart wants what the heart wants is just a descriptive fact of the world.

It's a truism.

But therefore, you need to make sure that your heart is in the right place.

Okay, next question.

Excellent question, Arun.

Yes, you're wrong.

You're wrong about your hunch of what I believed.

You hear this sometimes from conservatives.

This is a big waste of money and we shouldn't go to the moon because even though it's totally awesome, we need to spend more money on...

potholes or tax cuts or whatever.

And look, I want to fix the potholes and I want to keep low taxes.

But no, I think countries have to do things.

I think we have to do things together.

And I think if we want to be a great country, we have to do great things together.

And going to the moon is great.

It's just great.

That's the thing great countries do and that weak countries don't do.