One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.