It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatur…

- Christopher Dawson

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these thi…

- Christopher Dawson

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 s…

- Christopher Dawson

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to des…

- Christopher Dawson

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affec…

- 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 duri…

- Christopher Dawson

It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes …

- Christopher Dawson

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western…

- 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…

- Christopher Dawson