"Evil is to love, what mystery is to the intelligence. As mystery compels the virtue of faith to be supernatural, so does evil the virtue of charity. Moreover, to try to find compensation or justification for evil is just as harmful for charity as to try to expose the content of the mysteries on the plane of human intelligence."
Evil stands in here as a reminder of our position before God as well as our condition in desperate need for redemption (the religious impulse). The Good news is that we are in fact redeemed and it is merely our flesh that we allow to carry us back down to our temporary carnality.
To say that the world is not worth anything, that this life is of no value and to give evil as the proof is absurd, for if these things are worthless what does evil take from us?
Evil is proof that the world is worth something and that our life is worth more still.
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