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.

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.

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

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

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free.

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