What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds. — 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
