“… We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.”
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life
Nobel Prize–winning Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn expressed the idea that the problems of the Western world began in the Renaissance. He indicated that the thought processes enshrined during the Renaissance “did not [see in] the existence of … man … any higher task than the attainment of happiness on earth. … Modern Western civilization [has developed] on the dangerous trend to worship man and his material needs. …
“… We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.”
“… We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.”
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