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“That's more than you know about anything else then.”

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Prince Philip, full name Philip Mountbatten, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Born on June 10, 1921, he was a renowned Royal Knight of the Garter, known for his contributions to military, public affairs, and charity. more

“Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.”

World Whole Might Life Is Doubt Our Lives One Thing Influence This World Building Critical Vain Perceive Classic Suspects New World Idols Logos World Class Demonic Pantheon

Author:Karl Barth

“Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man.”

Men Needs Humans Problem Lasts Spiritual Turns Human Nature Danger Protection Classic Vitality Resorts Organisation

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.”

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Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.”

Source: Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)

“No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during the last 900 years. It is impossible to explain this fact in purely economic terms by a materialistic interpretation of history. The principle of change has been a spiritual one and the progress of Western civilisation is intimately related to the dynamic ethos of Western Christianity, which has gradually made Western man conscious of his moral responsibility and his duty to change the world.”

“People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind”

“How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?”

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Book:Lectures on Calvinism

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

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