Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes on God
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious-existentialist philosopher. This page collects quotes attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:
“Personality is created by God and is itself creative.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:
“Creativity is the response of human freedom to the divine call.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Berdyaev:
“The end is the meaning of history.”
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“Nihilism On A Religious Soil" (6 May 1907); it should be noted here that Berdyaev is here defining " theocracy " not in the sense as it is often used, of people ruling over other people, in claims of doing so by the commands of God, but rather defining it in terms of Christian anarchism — as a vigorous assertion of the right of no-one to rule over humans, save God .”
The new religious consciousness rises up against the nihilistic attitude towards the world and mankind . If a religious rebirth be possible, only then on this soil will there be the revealing of the religious meaning of secular culture and earthly liberation, the revealing of the truth about mankind. For the new religious consciousness the declaration of the will of God is together with this a dec -
“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism . … The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil , that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.”
Slavery and Freedom (1939), p. 147