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> [The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/the-real-challenge-the-rich-young-man-faced-was-not-just-giving-up/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

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## More by George Weigel

> [ But ripped out of context, \["Who am I to judge?" phrase\] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/but-ripped-out-of-context-who-am-i-to-judge-phrase-has-become-an-all/)

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> [“This life of ours . . . is a gift from God. It is not of our choosing. It comes to us by his choice. Since it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/this-life-of-ours-is-a-gift-from-god-it-is-not-of-our-choosing-it/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [ I hope \["reanimated the papacy"\] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/i-hope-reanimated-the-papacy-means-that-the-new-interest-in-the-pope/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/in-the-catholic-view-of-things-abortion-is-a-justice-issue-not-an/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [ The pope \[Francis\] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/the-pope-francis-takes-his-vocabulary-from-his-pastoral-experience/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/what-i-hope-my-liberal-friends-and-i-have-more-than-a-few-take-from/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [The people who are behind the curve of the Catholic future are the institutional-maintenance types.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/the-people-who-are-behind-the-curve-of-the-catholic-future-are-the/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [ \[Pope Francis\]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/pope-francis-sees-a-world-in-need-of-the-gospel-and-of-friendship/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not institutional maintenance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/be-the-church-that-is-be-an-evangelical-movement-that-tells-the-world/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/democracy-is-always-an-unfinished-experiment-testing-the-capacity-of/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [ \[Pope\] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/pope-francis-communicates-the-pastoral-embrace-of-the-church-the/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/the-dynamically-orthodox-orders-of-religious-women-will-continue-to/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [ These \[conservative\] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/these-conservative-people-if-they-re-americans-look-back-on-the-last/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [ \[Pope Francis\] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/pope-francis-is-78-years-old-and-knows-that-his-will-be-a-short/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

> [“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/ideas-are-not-intellectuals-toys-ideas-have-consequences-for-good-and/)

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