An Infallible Judge in Our Soul
Yesterday I finished reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and was impressed by the story of Konstantin Levin’s search for truth and meaning in life that was resolved at the end of the novel. Though raised a Christian, he had mentally moved away from the faith despite his goodness and kindness he showed to others. The novel relates, “The question was summed up for him thus: ‘If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept?’ And in the whole arsenal of his convictions, so far from finding any satisfactory answers, he was utterly unable to find anything at all like an answer…. Instinctively, unconsciously, with every book, with every conversation, with every man he met, he was on the lookout for light on these questions and their solution.” He searched in books and in the ideas of philosophers but was never satisfied with their answers. He thought to himself, “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life’s impossible; and that I...