My Road to the Light

«Just as the world would not have arisen without God, so the whole human culture would have been crushed if the Spirit of God had left it. There would be no life without the sun. The human spirit cannot exist without God. Man, rejected and abandoned by God, loses his creative power: he becomes a heartless, spiritless, cruel creature, powerless in contemplation and creation of new, perfect forms, but more capable of mutual torment and universal destruction; and his life is filled with fear, hard labor and mutual betrayal. History has given him enough evidence; do we really need new confirmations and further suffering?.. Whoever promotes godlessness prepares the greatest crimes for people: unbridledness, humiliation, slavery and torment... ...The path without God leads to destruction... But how can we show this to spiritual servants who cannot and do not want to see?..»

Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin. "The Singing Heart."