IN SPITE of his quaint Tory prejudices Dr. Johnson is one of the few persons in recent times that one may term wise without serious qualification because he never dodges or equivocates in dealing with the problem of evil; he never fades away from the fact of evil into some theosophic or sentimental dream.
Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism

DURING a visit to Taizé, the philosopher Paul Ricoeur said, “Goodness is deeper than the deepest evil. However radical evil may be, it is not as deep as goodness.”

Yes, though I walk through the valley of deepest darkness, I fear no evil because You are with me...