Walking on Water

“There are two ways to live: You can walk on dry land with utter legitimacy and respectability, measuring, weighting and planning ahead. Or you can walk on the waters, and then it becomes impossible to measure or plan ahead because the only thing necessary is to believe at every moment. An instant of doubt, and you start to sink.”
-Maria Skobtsova

Other-worldliness

“The more we go out into the world and give ourselves to the world, the less we are of the world, because what is of the world does not give itself to the world.”
-Maria Skobtsova

"There Is But One Law"

“Our relationship to other people should not be a sort of extra burden added to our own crosses, not some pious exercise or duty or act of virtue. There is just one law here. Only this determines our relationship: seeing the image of God in the other and then adopting him as a son. This is where duty, virtue, and pious exercise all fade away.”
-Maria Skobtsova