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March 12, 2007
i have shaped for myself a credo...
I will tell you that I am a child of the century, a child of disbelief and doubt…and will remain so until the grave. How much terrible torture this thirst for faith has cost me and costs me even now. And yet, God sends me sometimes instants when I am completely calm…and it is at these instants that I have shaped for myself a Credo where everything is clear and sacred for me. This Credo is very simple, here it is: to believe that nothing is more beautiful, profound, sympathetic reasonable, manly and more perfect than Christ…if someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.
Dostoevsky - From a letter to Madame Fonvizina written at 1854
Posted by amin at March 12, 2007 3:08 AM