Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Jesus, Believe, Perfect

• It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Faith, Jesus, Children

  "Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane". Book by Harold Victor Martin, 1950.

• Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wise, Spiritual, Fall

• Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.402, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

• If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, Christ, Should

• The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  God, Jesus, Believe

• What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Example, Use, Christ

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.180, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

• Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Father, Enemy

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