“Dostoyevsky…emphasied two things: first, there is no great man; secondly, there is no worthless man. He described the blackest crimes and the deepest fall and showed that the authors of such crimes are men just as other men, with much good hidden under their sins. Servants and vagabonds, idiots and drunkards, the dirty katorzniki [inmates]  from the Serbian prisons–all those people are God’s sons and daughters, with souls full of fears and hopes, of repentance and longings after good and justice.”
(St Nikolai  in ‘Religious Spirit of the Slavs’)