“The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.”
Cardinal Luca Rossini in Ch. 8
Eminence (1998)
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“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”
Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 2, sect. 6

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
Source: The Apophenion (2008), p. 62
Context: Does the universe as a whole exhibit any kind of consciousness that we can interact with? Does the universe seek to evolve greater complexity and more sophisticated consciousness? Could it use some help from us in this? Do all species seem worth preserving regardless of their economic value to us? Does some mysterious circularity in time connect consciousness and the very existence of the universe?
Most Neo-Pantheists like to think so.