Words matter. These are the best Nikolai Gogol Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
For a man, the soul of a woman is a preserving talisman, guarding him from moral infections; it is a power holding him to the straight path, a guide leading him back from the crooked to the straight. On the other hand, the soul of a woman can be his evil and ruin him forever.
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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?
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.
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips.
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
