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Where Love Is, There God Is Also Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Leo Tolstoy
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“You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is, There God Is Also
“In the morning he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the little lamp from the hook, put it on the table, get his book from the shelf, open it, and sit down to read. And the more he read, the more he understood, and the brighter and happier it grew in his heart.”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is, There God Is Also
“Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted.”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is There God Is Also
“blessed are the poor, the humble, the kind, the generous.”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is There God Is Also
“It seems that Pharisee must have been such a man as I am. I, too, apparently have thought only of myself,—how I might have my tea, be warm and comfortable, but never to think about my guest. He thought about himself, but there was not the least care taken of the guest. And who was his guest? The Lord Himself. If He had come to me, should I have done the same way?”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is There God Is Also
“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is, There God Is Also
“At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he could not tear himself away. And so Avdyeitch used to read every evening.”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is, There God Is Also
“You ruin them that way, the good-for-nothings,” said the old woman. “He ought to be treated so that he would remember it for a whole week.”

“Eh, babushka, babushka,” said Avdyeitch, “that is right according to our judgment, but not according to God's. If he is to be whipped for an apple, then what ought to be done to us for our sins?”
Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is, There God Is Also