...an odd combination, you say?

Monday, August 13, 2007

We must want it really badly, then.

This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.

Fyodor Dostoevsky,
from "The Grand Inquisitor" in
The Brothers Karamazov

I found this quote which I wrote down years ago. Tonight I found it again. This craving for community then will drive us to life and relationship or death, madness, and isolation. The human heart's capacity for polar opposites continues to amaze me.

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