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  • If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
    - Christopher Dawson
  • Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
    - Christopher Dawson
  • Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
    - Christopher Dawson
  • It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
    - Christopher Dawson
  • Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
    - Christopher Dawson
  • The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
    - Christopher Dawson