It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

The Russian soul is a dark place.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.