I can recompose a state and a society that has undergone decomposition only on religious grounds. I am not looking for the autonomy of the state and society from religion, but for the justification and strengthening of the state and society in religion. I no longer want freedom from God in anything, I want freedom in God and for God. ... God must once again become the center of our whole life, our thoughts, our feelings, our only dream, our only hope. My thirst for boundless freedom should be understood as my quarrel with the world, not with God.
— Berdyaev