Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

by Mary Doria Russell

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? Giuliani asked himself that night. What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it’s not just me.

“God made the world and He saw that it was good,” Sofia’s father had always told her when she complained of some injustice during her brief childhood. “Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect, Sofia. Good.”

Pedro Arrupe said that injustice is atheism in action!

“Sufferin’ may be banal and predictable, but it doesn’t hurt any less for all that.

Choose. Will you live at the expense of others or will you do what you must to live another way?”