Tell me yourself, I challenge you—answer. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature—that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance—and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth.”
“No, I wouldn’t consent,” said Alyosha softly.
“And can you admit the idea that men for whom you are building it would agree to accept their happiness on the foundation of the unexpiated blood of a little victim? And accepting it would remain happy for ever?”
“No, I can’t admit it. Brother,” said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, “you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, ‘Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!’ ”
-Excerpt from "Rebellion", Book V, Chapter 4 of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3 comments:
I'm flattered to be linked on your blog. The quality of my content is nowhere near yours. Obviously, you're much more of a reader than I am.
And there is a book by C.S. Lewis with the same title as my blog, but it's also from 2 Corinthians 4:17 - "For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison." I do have the book, but I haven't gotten around to reading it, despite its short length.
And I was upset when I woke up to see that I missed community group. I stayed up more than 30 hours for two assignments I had to turn in for school. School owns.
How's work?
i thought you wrote this this before i saw the end quotes on the first paragraph!
i meant second paragraph
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