Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

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.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

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

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

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

We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.