Therefore, let him who sees the sun’s whole light filling the world, refrain from blaming or despising the superstitious man, who in his own idol sees one ray of that same light. Let him not despise even the unbeliever who is blind and cannot see the sun at all.

Toporóff, like all those who are quite destitute of the fundamental religious feeling that recognizes the equality and brotherhood of men, was fully convinced that the common people were creatures entirely different from himself, and that the people needed what he could very well do without, for at the bottom of his heart he believed in nothing, and found such a state very convenient and pleasant.

One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.