It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. The Brothers Karamazov Mitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him… — 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
“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
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive… — 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
“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
Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am trying to explain as quickly as possible my essential nature, that is, what manner of man I am, what I… — 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
