For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy."

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

"Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth."

"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."