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Quotation from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“God has just such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby’s face.”
The Idiot, Part II, Chapter IV, trans. Constance Garnett
Myshkin tells Rogozhin of a young mother crossing herself over her baby's first smile, his answer to Rogozhin's question about faith.
Citation: "God has just such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby’s face." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Part II, Chapter IV, trans. Constance Garnett. (id the-idiot-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vasily Perov, Public domain.
