There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.
Nikolai BerdyaevThere is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai BerdyaevDeath, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
Nikolai BerdyaevIn creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.
Nikolai Berdyaev