“The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.” PeopleBelieveChristianSpiritMaterialsMajorityIncludingOverwhelming Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” IdeasChristianFormStruggleAtheismTerribleEverydayAtheistPassionatePracticalsIndifferenceEncountersMilitantEveryday Living Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“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.” WorldIdeasEarthChristianSpiritualValuesFatherHeavenConsciousnessHellCreaturesUniversalSalvationKingdomsCosmosResurrectionEasternKingdom Of GodNew EarthTransfiguration Author:Nikolai Berdyaev