There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy