Already the only constant idea is that there exists something infinitely more just and happier than myself, it entirely fills me with immeasurable tenderness and glory, oh, whoever I am, whatever I have done. For man, a good deal more indispensable than his own happiness is to know and in every moment to believe that there exists in a certain place a perfect and calm happiness for everyone and for everything....The entire law of human existence consists solely in this: that man can always bow his head before that which is infinitely great. If human beings were deprived of that which is infinitely great, then they would not be able to live any longer and would die as victims of desperation.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quoted in More Daily Prayers for Busy People, by William J O'Malley, page 173
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