Between East and West

The western world has very much affirmed the ego of man. That is the great difference between the East and the West. In the eastern world, where there is an overemphasis on the sovereignty of God, God does everything, man does nothing. That is the reason that there's been very little technical progress in the East. In the western world, man does everything, God does nothing. The balance between the two is, "I can do all things in him who strengthens me."