It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.