“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”

—  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As quoted in Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane (1950) by Harold Victor Martin.
Variant translation:
I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt.
Last Notebook (1880–1881), Literaturnoe nasledstvo, 83: 696; as quoted in Kenneth Lantz, The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia (2004), p. 21, hdn ISBN 0-313-30384-3

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