Christopher Dawson

“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”

“The great civilizations of the world do not produce the great religions as a kind of cultural by-product; in a very real sense, the great religions are the foundations on which the great civilizations rest.”

“A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.”

“The unity of Europe is not a matter of political convenience or economic advantage. It is a spiritual necessity.”

“The modern world is dying, not from lack of knowledge, but from lack of faith.”

“The end of a culture is the death of a people.”

“The creative minorities in every civilization are the seed of the future.”

“The family is the primary social unit, and it is in the family that the moral and intellectual character of the rising generation is formed.”

“Every culture is a spiritual community, and the spiritual bond which unites its members is religion.”

“The state is not the creator but the servant of the community.”

“The natural man is a religious being, and the heart of religion is worship.”

“The Christian view of history is not a theory of progress. It is a belief in the sanctification of time by the Incarnation.”

“It is the saints who are the true realists, for they see things as they are in the light of eternity.”

“The moment a man ceases to be a member of a society, he becomes a wanderer in the spiritual desert.”