The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.

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

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

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

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.