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“Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we would call them gameplans. A person can erect some sort of structure, some type of limited frame in which he lives, shutting himself up in that frame and not looking beyond it.”

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Book:How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Source: How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

“The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning for people. On the other hand, if one begins with the Bible's position that man is created by God and in the image of God, there is a basis for that person's dignity.”

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Book:How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Source: How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

“To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.”

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Book:How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Source: How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture