"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.ӧ -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on communism.
"A faulty understanding of God and how to respond to him can only lead to praise that is inadequate in motivation and expression." —Trueman
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (July 1 1742 – February 24 1799) (German scientist, satirist and philosopher), As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) edited by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 153
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