Sublime

щедр человек на слово «дурак» и готов прислужиться им двадцать раз на день своему ближнему.

And that means that you, too, Grigory Vasilievich, do not believe in a proper manner, and merely scold others for it in every possible way.

YOUNG MAN, DO not forget to pray. Each time you pray, if you do so sincerely, there will be the flash of a new feeling in it, and a new thought as well, one you did not know before, which will give you fresh courage; and you will understand that prayer is education.

Do not be upset with people, do not take offense at their wrongs. Forgive the dead man in your heart for all the harm he did you; be reconciled with him truly. If you are repentant, it means that you love. And if you love, you already belong to God …

all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice,

if you come together with one other person like yourself, there you have a whole world, a world of vibrant love;

Thus he possessed in himself, in his very nature, so to speak, artlessly and directly, the gift of awakening a special love for himself.

The thing is that he does, perhaps, make a figure, but a figure of an indefinite, indeterminate sort.

blood ‘renews,’ when comfort is preached as the aim of life.