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• 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.
• We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but…
• Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds…
• The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God…
• The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the…
• So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the…
• God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is…
• Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
• The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic…
• The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First…
• Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to…

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