Human_Error
04-22-2005, 03:52 PM
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist of spiritual depth
"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."
The sentence of death had been read, last rites offered. Fyodor Dostoyevksy, 29, watched as fellow prisoners were tied to a stake, readied to be shot.
Then a messenger burst upon this scene, saying the Tsar had decided to spare their lives (as it turned out, the mock execution had been part of his punishment). When the pardon was announced, two of the prisoners went permanently insane; another went on to write Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamozov—two of the greatest novels in Western literature.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/dostoyevsky.html
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV ONLINE http://www.ccel.org/d/dostoevsky/karamozov/karamozov.html
Russian novelist of spiritual depth
"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."
The sentence of death had been read, last rites offered. Fyodor Dostoyevksy, 29, watched as fellow prisoners were tied to a stake, readied to be shot.
Then a messenger burst upon this scene, saying the Tsar had decided to spare their lives (as it turned out, the mock execution had been part of his punishment). When the pardon was announced, two of the prisoners went permanently insane; another went on to write Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamozov—two of the greatest novels in Western literature.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/dostoyevsky.html
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV ONLINE http://www.ccel.org/d/dostoevsky/karamozov/karamozov.html