Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love … - Malcolm Muggeridge

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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological height. It is as if psychology had voluntarily restricted itself to only half its rightful jurisdiction, and that the darker, meaner half.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.

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The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

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