From “An Answer to Ivan” (one of the Karamazov brothers in Dostoyevsky’s novel):
Once one has risen to the level of doubting, two paths open up to him: the path of questioning, of doubting of trying to understand until one ends in doubting everything, destroyed by doubt, or else giving oneself over to some false science that “explains”–i. e., explains away the irreconcilable paradoxes of our existence; or the path of acceptance and prayer, accepting even the doubt (without contriving more than one’s immediate experience gives one legitimately to doubt), praying to be given yet more to try and test us, crying for more life, more to accept and weep over, accepting and praying in the midst of doubt, knowing that the way of doubt has as many pitfalls as the way of easy acceptance.
–Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works, p. 99
