Divine and Human

When the image of God in man is destroyed, then the image of man is destroyed as well. Man descends into a chaotic, base nature in which he vanishes. - The Lie of Humanism, 9

My faith in God is absolute and unshakeable. I believe in God, because I do not believe in the self-sufficiency of the world and of man. The meaning of the world is in God. - Letters to Mme K, 2

"The pursuit of security is false. Faith is risk and danger; it is a matter of freedom. The philosophy of the angel is a rejection of the state of the world. Static ontology is mistaken. Human nature changes. Modern man is confronted by death. The old world is finished; a new era has begun." Notes by N.A Berdyaev, (65)

"Christianity is the judgment upon history. It does not withdraw from participation in historical events, nor does it deny the activity of humanity in history. The decisive end of history is prepared through the creative activity of humanity; thus, it depends on it. Even the return of the God-Man Christ depends on the actions of humanity. The end of history is a matter of both God and humanity. History must not be understood as purely human or purely divine; rather, it is something in which both God and humanity are involved. Humanity partakes in the human nature of Christ." - Christian and Marxist Understandings of History, 3 (13)

"The Russian atheist is not so much a man who denies God as one who indicts Him. He refuses to bow the knee to an omnipotent guilty of such an enormity." - THE RUSSIAN IDEA by Christopher Hollis, 4

"The spiritual world cannot be the result of something that has nothing in common with spirit. This is a fundamental lie. The lower can never create the higher; matter cannot create spirit; absurdity cannot create meaning; the world cannot engender God. The spirit is in the beginning and not in the end." - Letters to Mme K, 18

"Existence itself cannot be the object of knowledge. The knowledge of the mystery of existence is not objective knowledge but "subjective" knowledge. Philosophy can only be anthropocentric, not in a pragmatic sense, but in the sense that the mystery of being is revealed only within human existence, as the pinnacle of being, as the most concretely universal. Truth lies neither solely in the subject nor in the object." - THE PHILOSOPHER AND EXISTENCE, 8 (78)