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

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.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

In 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.

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

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.