” At some things you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sins, uncertain whether to combat them by force or by humble love. Always decide, ‘I will combat it by humble love.’ If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humbly is a terrible force: it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it.”
The Spiritual guide Zossima in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
