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“Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings of grown-up people, they have eaten the apple, damn them, and the devil take them all! But these little ones!
The Brothers Karamazov
Ivan to Alyosha, on the suffering and torture of children, "
Book V - Pro and Contra, Chapter 4 - Rebellion.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: children, community, faith, god, nihilism, suffering, the-brothers-karamazov, theodicy

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