"Schleiermacher's impatience with the transcendental egotism of Fichte is evident in the early Speeches. Fichte shows how far he is from true piety in his Promethean confidence that man's world of meaning and value is his own creation. The pious man knows that he is not the ground of his own being -- that all reality comes to him as a gift, flowing from the great unseen reality in which all things cohere. In other words, religion at bottom is grace."
(p. 56.)
"Whatever its source, [Schleiermacher's] sense that everything of value in one's consciousness of God -- everything that can rightly be called religion -- comes as 'gift' is very deep. Indeed, Schleiermacher's well-known definition of religion as the feeling of absolute dependence is perhaps best understood as the awareness of the utter 'givenness' of faith."
-- Friedrich Schleiermacher, C. W. Christian, 1979, p. 35.
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