Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka __ested dolls_ that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside_it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct_ (pp.80)
What Good Is God?: In Search of a Faith That Matters
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On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka __ested dolls_ that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside_it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct_ (pp.80)
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