“The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”
“Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”
“In any culture the dispossessed and powerless willl turn to religion and legend, because what else do they have to believe in? They need these stories of heroism and superhuman saviors to give them hope.”
“Do you often wonder,” she continued, desperately hoping her questions would win Vasily over, “what might have been had his gaze fallen upon some other miserable wretch? Yes, you would have been destitute, starving in the streets, scraping for your next meal…but even beggars are free.”
“The miserable have no other medicineBut only hope:I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.”
“Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.”