If you have not first pondered the entire situation of the man whom you wish to help, and if you have not brought with you instructions for him to follow henceforth in leading his life, he will not receive great good from your help. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
Sometimes, it is enough for us to hold out a hand to receive help. It is not we who help; God helps, granting His power to the powerless word. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
Russia! Russia… Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker’s gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you? Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know. Nikolai Gogol Read Quote
