It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his haste for premature simplification always tends to shut his eyes to one aspect of the truth and to seek a false harmony of thought by the sacrifice of an essential element of reality.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

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

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

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.