“Is it not rather hard of you then to say that they cannot understand, cannot perceive truth in the high tableland?”

“Is it hard of me?  Why?  They will get to heaven, which is all they want.  And they will understand one day, which is more than they pray for.  Till they have done being anxious about their own salvation, we must forgive them that they can contemplate with calmness the damnation of a universe, all the while believing that God is yet more indifferent than they.”

“But who is to say that you are right and they are the unenlightened ones?  They could bring the same charge against you, of being unable to understand them.”

“Yes.  And so it must remain until the Spirit of God decides the matter….  For this decision can only consist in the enlightenment of souls to see the truth.  Till then, the Right must be content to be called the Wrong and – which is far harder – to seem the Wrong.  There is no spiritual victory gained by a verbal conquest, or by any kind of torture.”

David Elginbrod by George MacDonald