In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling block to the realist. It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief...Faith does… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moment of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Thou didst not come down from the cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the cross… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“he was partly a young man of our time - that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“My task is to explain to you as quickly as possible my essence, that is, what sort of man I am, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
