Ben

“And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist; but that is how it is. I am not trying to deny the wickedness of the wicked; what I do deny is that their existence is absolute and complete existence. Just as you might call a corpse a dead man, but couldn't simply call it a man, so I would agree that the wicked are wicked, but could not agree that they have unqualified existence.”
― Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy