God Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.”

“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”

“Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.”

“It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!”

“We are often harsher judges than God himself.”

“Love is always flowing. Love is a river. The moment you stop a river, it becomes dirty. The river is only clean when it is flowing.”

“I just want to trust my feelings, and trust that my feelings are okay. I want to let myself feel the way that I feel with Riley. Like I'm an okay person—even a good one. That I'm loved and lovely the way I am, and that it's not a sin to feel happy and to love without reservation. I'm not sure where God and I will end up, but I know that I only want to be friends with God if God is... different than I've been taught. If I come back to God after all this and find that God is a kinder, more loving presence than the one I've known, great. And if God is more loving than I've been taught, then I think God would be okay with me needing some time to untangle this. I think God would want me to feel a shred of happiness. That is the”

“Unless you understand the pain and sufferings of the people, trees, birds and the nature, how can you understand God.”

“I choose to believe God had a more direct involvement in the creation of my heart and consciousness than in the creation of any book, no matter how thick or old it may be.”