Leo Tolstoy

“ If you live only by the spirit and can disregard the flesh, you can throw off the flesh and your spirit will remain alive.
And it seemed to him that he was standing on the roof of the temple and the voice of the flesh said to him: If you are a son of God in the spirit, throw yourself from the temple, you will not hurt yourself, but an unseen force will keep you, support you, and save you from all harm. But Jesus said to himself: I can disregard the flesh, but I may not throw it off, for I was born by the spirit into the flesh. ”

“ He has chosen me to announce happiness to the unfortunate and the brokenhearted, to announce freedom to those who are bound, light to the blind, and salvation and rest to the tormented, to announce to all men the day of God's mercy. ”

“ As a sign of a changed life I cleanse you in water, but as well as that bathing you must also be cleansed with the spirit. The spirit will cleanse you as a master cleanses his threshing-floor when he gathers the wheat and burns the chaff. ”