Longing to Believe

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual

difficulties stand in the way.

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sincere Prayer

“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov