This from a remarkable book I’m reading:

“For grave dangers to the human spirit lurk in the subordination of the political system and the economic system to a single moral-cultural vision. Daily life is (as Christians believe) a contest with the world, the flesh, and the devil. An attempt to impose the Kingdom of God upon this contest is dangerous not only to human liberty but to Christianity itself (and to any other religion similarly tempted). For darkness and recalcitrance always demand their due and corrupt those who would replace them.”

Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 83.