The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction!
The whole point of my article is that in ancient times, during its first three centuries, Christianity was revealed on earth only by the Church, and was only the Church. But when the pagan Roman state...
The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future, without analysis, without suppositions or sur...
The side whiskers indeed were quite handsome. But he stroked them so very zealously that looking at him, one might very well think that first just the side whiskers had been brought into the world, an...
The point is in life, in life alone—in discovering it, constantly and eternally, and not at all in the discovery itself!
The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?
The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.
The game's not worth the candle
The enthusiasm of today’s youth is as pure and bright as it was in our time. Only one thing has happened: a shift of goals, the replacement of one beauty with another! The entire misunderstanding lies...
The Apostle Thomas said that he would not believe till he saw, but when he did see he said, My Lord and my God! Was it the miracle forced him to believe? Most likely not, but he believed solely becaus...
Take a soldier and put him right in front of a cannon in a battle and fire it at him, and he’ll go on hoping, but read out a certain death sentence to that same soldier, and he’ll go mad, or start to...
Să nu-l învinuieşti, Vanea, mă întrerupse Nataşa, şi să nu râzi de el! Ar fi nedrept să-l judeci ca pe oricare altul. Că doar el nu-i ca alţii, ca mine, ori ca tine, de pildă. E încă un copil, a fost...
Stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there’s no escaping it.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and...
Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: ‘Fathers, provoke not your children!’ Let us first fulfill Christ’s commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same...
Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and...