The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large a...s the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes o...f our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the standpoint of the typical modern, Protestantism and Renaissance are merely two different movements in the direction of in...dividual freedom, the only difference between them being that the latter is a little more congenial to the modern spirit than the former. The real significance of the two movements lies in the fact that one represents the final development of individuality within terms of the Christian religion and the other an even further development of individuality beyond the limits set in the Christian religion, that is, the development of the "autonomous" individual. It is this autonomous individual who really ushers in modern civilization and who is completely annihilated in the final stages of that civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of in...ferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection ... raise up a stately and unaccusable whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ashtrays to cry into, the suffering brother of the wood walls,... the forty-eight keys of the typewriter each an eyeball that is never shut, the books, each a contestant in a beauty contest, the black chair, a dog coffin made of Naugahyde....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is clear is that Christianity directed increased attention to childhood. For the first time in history it seemed important to... decide what the moral status of children was. In the midst of this sometimes excessive concern, a new sympathy for children was promoted. Sometimes this meant criticizing adults. . . . So far as parents were put on the defensive in this way, the beginning of the Christian era marks a revolution in the child's status.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elem...ental unfledged pinions of the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between the Christian and Roman ideals of the early centuries A.D. there is a disjunction which is perfect. Rome stands for corpor...ate civic strength, Christianity (at least in its early stages when the Second Advent was a daily possibility) abominates all that is secular; Rome stands for a disciplined society in which tolerance allows all sorts to live together in peace, Christianity is a narrowly exclusive sect which shrinks apart. When Rome was doing all she could to hold together society and civilization, Christianity was becoming chief of the forces of disintegration. In the end Christianity triumphed but who shall say that the enemy was Rome? No doubt it shed (as unfeelingly as any fledgling) the shell which had fostered it; but the shell had been cracked from outside. Now it is a momentous happening that the beginnings of the Christian and the Roman imperial eras nearly coincide in time. The two were enemies from birth. The Roman Empire is dead, the Christian Church lives on. The Empire began in pride and splendor, the Church in humility and insignificance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely de...pended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »