Thursday, February 23, 2006

Faultlines

Christianity has always been reproved by atheistic socialism for not having made men happy and given them rest and fed them, and by preaching the religion of earthly bread socialism has attracted millions and millions of followers. …it is because it (Christianity) has not wished to violate the freedom of the human spirit, because it appeals to human freedom and awaits therefrom the fulfilling of the word of Christ. Christianity is not to blame that mankind has not willed the accomplishment of that word and has betrayed it; the fault lies with man, not with the God-man.
Nicholas Berdyaev

4 comments:

D. I. Dalrymple said...

Nice quote.

Jacob Aleksander said...

Yes...

Berdyaev may have been wacky, but he did write a nice little book about Dostoevsky from whence comes this quote.

Unknown said...

*Zdravstvuite* from one Russkovo Studientka to another (well, i guess you're not a "studientKA")

Jacob Aleksander said...

очень приятно...можно скажи "здравствуй" со мной...