Of course, when he was in the monastery, he believed entirely in miracles, but I dont think that miracles ever confound a realist. Nor is it that miracles that bring a realist to religion. If he is an unbeliever, a true realist will always find the strength and ability not to believe in a miracle, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact, he will rather disbelieve his own senses that accept that fact. Or he may concede the fact and explain it away as a natural phenomenon until then unknown. In a realist, it is not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles. Once a realist becomes a believer, however, his very realism will make him accept the existence of miracles. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 06:22:05 +0000
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