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  • the meaning of the world

    "The essence of the world's evil is in the fact that human beings feel alien to one another and wallow in discord, contradictions and antipathies, and precisely herein lies the absurd, irrational existence of the world…

  • unity and harmony

    "All unity and harmony is in God: he is supreme good for our will, absolute truth for our understanding, perfect beauty for our affections." Soloviev, God, Man, and the Church

  • fireworks 3

    "The truth proper to the creature is not so much the possession of the absolute truth as the readiness to receive it again and again." -- Blathasar, Theologic I, Truth of the World "The in…

  • pictures

    "In the sphere of the eternal divine being, Christ is the eternal spiritual center of the universal organism." Soloviev We must remember where we came from and where we are going. Our culture …

  • quotes, Christianity and socialism

    There is but one slight difference between Christianity and socialism, which is that Christianity urges one to give away what is one's own, while socialism urges one to take what belongs to others. Soloviev The way…

  • quotes

    "Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb: It is the shut, the curfew sent From there where all surrenders come Which only makes you eloquent." "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, …

  • Vladimir Soloviev, born 1853, in Russia, wrote God, Man, and The Church, The Spiritual Foundations Of Life (translated by Donald Attwater in 1937) "The wickedness and futility of the way our mortal life is lived is rec…