For example, the current edition of The Guardian Weekly (March 23, 1997 edition), [which includes The Washington Post and Le Monde] has the following:

"French police who last week detained more than 200 people linked to a child pornography ring said some of the 5,000 video cassettes they seized featured footage of babies submitted to sexual acts. Police in Nice, who spear-headed the five-month nation-wide police operation, said that among those detained were five school teachers, two head teachers, members of the judiciary and a television journalist."

After the Exodus of Israel, after 40 years of daily miracles, after being led by one of the truly greatest and most noble of men, Moses, this is what Moses said to them:

Dt 30:11-15 For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it? 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it? 14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. 15 See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,
Dt 30:19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

Dt 32:4-6 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice, a God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He. 5 They have corrupted themselves; they are not His children, because of their blemish: a perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do you thus deal with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?
Dt 32:19-20 And when the LORD saw it, He spurned them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 20 And He said: I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.
Dt 32:28-9 For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them. 29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Dt 32:46-7 and He said to them: Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe; all the words of this law. 7 For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess."

Jer 21:8 Now you shall say to this people, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Mat 7:12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. [Lk 6:31] Just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them!

Mat 7:13-14 Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city [Derbe] and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, "We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God."

These spiritual battles and other problems will keep on coming!
Just before Jesus' totally unjustified death (hence His sacrifice is perfect), He said to the disciples, the night before the Passover:

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer [take courage; don't be daunted, or discouraged], I have overcome the world.

Only months before he died of lung problems, the great Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky, finished his final novel (1880), The Karamazov Brothers, which is regarded as "perhaps the profoundest study in the field of the novel of the conflict between Good and Evil" (European Literature, Vol 2, Barron's Educational Series, N.Y., 1952, p 551). "He places men face to face and speaks, analyses, and argues for them with a passionateness and enthusiasm, with endurance and keenness, a versatility and profundity, which are as yet unmatched" (ibid., p 543-4). 
The novel is about three brothers: Dimitri (a degenerate, firstborn to his father's first wife) who symbolises ancient Russia, without culture or intellect; Ivan (highly educated and firstborn to his father's second wife), who symbolises 19th century westernised Russia, built on skepticism, intellectualism, and amorality; and Aleksei, who is the youngest, religious, a lover of his fellow man, who symbolises the Russia of the future.

In Part 2, Book 5, section 5 is the Parable of The Grand Inquisitor. It is set in 16th century Seville where Jesus Christ appears, heals people and raises a girl from the funeral coffin. He is ordered to be arrested by the inquisitorial cardinal, who then delivers a long monologue to Him in the dungeon at night. The parable is based on Satan's attempts to tempt Jesus Christ in the desert during His 40 day fast immediately preceding His apostolic ministry. It is recorded in Matt 4:1-11; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:1-13. Before I go through an edited description of that parable, let's look at the biblical background in Lk 4:1-13.

Dostoevsky's parable speaks of three areas of testing. Let's keep these possibilities in mind as we review the Scripture:

1) MIRACLE: i.e., will our own power, or a power other than God's, influence our behaviour so that we contravene the will of God?
2) MYSTERY: i.e., will our own versions of the mystery of God and the Gospel of the Kingdom, or some other source defining God and the Kingdom of God, influence our behaviour so that we turn to our own self-delusions of how we shall enter the Kingdom? God wants to know if we really will truly live by only His definitions of what is Truth!
3) AUTHORITY: i.e., will our own authority, or authority other than God's, influence our behaviour so that we contravene the will of God?

Luke 4:1 (NASB) And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the Devil. He ate nothing during those days; and when they had ended, He became hungry. 3 The Devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

John 6:34 They said therefore to Him, "Lord, evermore give us this bread." 35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
38 "For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
48 "I am the bread of life. 49 "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 "This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread also which I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh."
63 "It is the Spirit which gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life."

Jer 15:16 Your words were found and I ate them, [See Ezk 2:8; 3:1; Rev 10:9]. And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 I did not sit in the circle of mockers, nor did I exult. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation. 18 Why has my pain been perpetual and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream whose water is unreliable?

Rom 9:33 As it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone [lithos] and rock [petra] of offence [skandalon: arouses prejudice and becomes a hindrance to others], and whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame" (see Isa 8:14 and 28:16).

1 Cor 10:3 all [of Israel, the church in the wilderness] ate the same spiritual food [manna], 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock [petra] that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

Lk 4:4 And Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'man shall not live on bread alone.'" [Matt 4:4 .... but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (LXX; Dt 8:3)].

Miracles are demanded by people so that their perceived human needs are met. (The promises of politicians fall into this category!) Do we ask for miracles to override the will of God? Do we ask for miraculous interventions to avoid the pains of duress and despair when faith in God is in question? What are the limits of our trust in the faithfulness of our God - who promises never to leave us nor forsake us?
Yet does this mean that we do not ask for miracles? Well, of course not.

Israel, in the wilderness of the Exodus, cried out for bread! They were fed miraculously with the manna, daily, but did this daily event convict them enough that all of them should make it into the Promised Land (Ex 16)?

Ps 78:17-19 Yet they still continued to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. In their heart they put God to the test by asking food according to their desire.
24 He rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them food from heaven. 25 Man ate the bread of angels; God sent them food in abundance. Then they spoke against God in saying: Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

In the NT, Jesus Christ provided for the human needs of large numbers (Matt 14:13-21; 15:29-38; Mk 6:30-44; 8:1-12; Lk 9:10-17; Jn 6:1-15). In Mark 8:11-12 we note that the Pharisees asked Christ for a heavenly sign, a miracle:

Mark 8:11-12 "And sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, "Why does this generation seek for a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.""

Mat 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Col 1:26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Lk 4:5-8 Satan led Him up and showed Him [by visions] all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 The devil said to Him, "I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 "Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours." 8 Jesus answered and said to him, "It is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only (Dt 6:13; 10:20).'"

To worship the true God, in the House of God, in the Spirit of Truth, is to know more of the mystery of God!
Examples of scriptural back-up for this include:

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

Luke 10:22 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

Lk 4:9-13 And he took Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here 10 for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you to guard you,' 11 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" 12 And Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'You shall not put the LORD your God to the test (Dt 6.16).'" 13 When the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.

John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it."

Anything further that You might say would endanger men's freedom of faith .... And didn't You Yourself say so often, "I want to make you free"? ... But let me tell You that now, at this very time, these people are more than ever convinced of their absolute freedom, and yet they themselves have brought their freedom to us and laid it submissively at our feet. But it is we who have brought this about, and  is this what You wanted, that kind of freedom?....
You departed. You left the task in our hands. You promised, You gave Your word, You gave us the right to bind and loose... The terrible and cunning Spirit, the spirit of self-destruction and annihilation, the Great Spirit spoke to you in the wilderness, and it has been written in the books that he is said to have tempted You. .. And could anything more truthful have been said than that which he revealed to You in the three offers, that which You rejected, and which in the books are called the 'temptations'? ... For those three temptations combine and predict, as it were, the whole future history of mankind, and manifest three images in which all the insoluble historical contradictions of human nature the world over will come together.

Nothing has ever been so intolerable to man and to human society as freedom! ... for what sort of freedom would it be, You judged, if obedience were bought with bread? You replied that man does not live by bread alone. But do You know that it will be in the name of just that terrestrial bread that the spirit of the earth will rise against You, will do battle with You and defeat You, and all men will follow that spirit, exclaiming 'Who is like the Beast? He makes fire come down from heaven.' Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim with its voice of wisdom and science that there is no crime and consequently no sin, but only starving people? 'Feed them, and then ask for virtue!' That's what they'll write on their banner which they will raise against You and with which they will destroy Your temple.
A new edifice will arise in place of Your temple, the terrible Tower of Babel will arise anew...  we alone shall feed them in Your name, and when we say that it is in Your name, we shall be lying. Oh, never, never will they be able to feed themselves without us! So long as they remain free no science will ever give them bread, and in the end they will bring their freedom and lay it at our feet, saying, 'Enslave us, but feed us!' And they will come to understand that freedom together with an abundance of earthly bread for all is inconceivable, for they will never, never learn to share among themselves! They will become convinced, too, that they can never be free because they are weak, depraved, worthless, and rebellious. You promised them the bread of heaven, but, I repeat again, can that, in the eyes of the weak, eternally depraved and eternally ignoble human tribe, compare with earthly bread?... They will wonder at us and take us for gods because, placing ourselves at their head, we shall have agreed to take away their freedom and rule over them - so terrible will they find it in the end to be free! But we shall tell them that we obey You and rule in Your name. We shall be deceiving them again, because we shall no longer let You near us. ...

But in that temptation lay the great mystery of this world. In accepting the 'loaves', You would have responded to the universal and eternal dilemma of man as an individual and of humanity as a whole: whom to worship? When man finds himself free, there is no concern more pressing and more tormenting to him than the desire immediately to seek out someone to worship. ... For this universality of worship, men have put one another to the sword. they have created gods, and appealed to one another, 'Leave your gods, and come and worship ours, otherwise death to you and your gods!' And thus it will be till the end of the world.... But only he who appeases men's consciences can relieve them of their freedom. In bread, You were offered an incontrovertible banner: give man bread and he will worship You...

Instead of relieving men of their freedom, You increased it even more! Had You forgotten that peace and even death are dearer to man than freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil? Indeed, nothing is more beguiling to man than freedom of conscience, but nothing is more tormenting either. ... You desired man to have freedom of choice in love so that he would follow You freely, lured and captivated by you. ... They will cry out in the end that truth is not in You, for they could not have been left in worse confusion and torment than that in which You left them, bequeathing them so many problems and unresolved questions. ... There are three forces, only three forces on earth that can subdue and imprison the conscience of these weak-willed rebels forever for their own good - these forces are miracle, mystery, authority.. You rejected all three and thus You Yourself set the example.

When the terrible and cunning spirit set You on a pinnacle of the temple and said to You, 'If You would know whether you are the Son of God, cast Yourself down: for it is written, the angels will take charge of Him and bear Him up lest He fall and be hurt, and You will know then if You are the Son of God, and have proved what faith You have in Your Father,' You, having listened rejected the temptation .... But, I repeat, are there many like You? Surely You can't suggest, even for a moment, that men too would be able to resist such a temptation?....

Restlessness, confusion, and unhappiness - that is the present lot of men after You suffered so much for their liberty! In a vision and an allegory Your great prophet tells how he saw all the participants in the first resurrection, and that there were twelve thousand from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. But to be so numerous, they would have to be not men but gods. .... What are they guilty of, the others, the weak, who cannot endure what the strong endure? How is the weak spirit guilty for not being able to cope with such terrible gifts? .... We have improved upon Your creation and founded it instead on miracle, mystery, and authority. And men were delighted that once more they were led like sheep .... Have we not really loved man when we have so humbly recognised his weakness, have lightened his burden out of love, and out of consideration for his feeble nature have even allowed him to sin, so long as it is with our permission? ... Listen then: we are not with You but with him - that is our secret!

Had You accepted that third suggestion of the mighty spirit, You could have provided all that man seeks on earth - that is to say, someone to worship, someone to take charge of his conscience, and finally, a way to be united unequivocally in a communal and harmonious ant heap, for the need of universal unity is mankind's third and last torment. Mankind as a whole has always striven towards universal organisation above all. ... We shall mount the Beast and raise up the cup, and on it will be written 'Mystery'. ... You pride Yourself on Your chosen ones, but You have only the chosen ones, whereas we shall bring peace to all. Besides, that's not all: how many of those chosen ones, of those mighty ones who could have become the chosen ones, have grown weary of waiting for You and have taken and will continue to take their strength of spirit and their passionate hearts to another altar, and will end by raising their banner of freedom against You Yourself?... Freedom, science, and independence of spirit will lead them into such a labyrinth and confront them with such miracles and such insoluble mysteries that some of them, intractable and savage, will destroy themselves, while others, intractable but less strong, will destroy one another [See Ezk 34.17-23]; and those who remain, feeble and unhappy, will crawl up to our feet and will cry out to us, 'Yes, you were right, you alone held his secret, and we are returning to you: save us from ourselves (p 324).'

Isaiah 58:1 [Brenton; LXX; plus combinations from other translations] Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to My people their sins, and to the House of Jacob their iniquities.

2 They seek for Me day after day, and desire to know My ways, as if they were a people who had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God: they now ask of Me righteous judgment, and desire to draw close to God, 3 saying, Why have we fasted, and You don't regard us? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You don't know it? No, in the days of your fasts you seek your own desires, and all those who are under your power you wound. 4 Since you fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly with your fists, why do you fast to Me as you do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying? 5 I have not chosen this fast, nor such a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though you  bend down your neck as a ring, and spread under yourselves sackcloth and ashes, neither shall you call such a fast acceptable. 6 I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but that you should loose every burden of iniquity, untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account. 7 Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house: if you see someone naked, clothe him, and you shall not disregard your own relatives of your own seed. 8 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth: and your righteousness shall go ahead of you, and the glory of God shall surround you. 9 Then you'll cry out, and God shall hear you; while you are still speaking He will say, Behold, I am here. If you remove from yourselves the yoke [of the bondage of sins], and the stretching forth of the hands, and evil speech; 10 and if you offer your bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness shall be as noon-day 11 and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according to your soul's desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain from which water never fails. 12 Your old waste desert places shall be built up, and your foundations shall last through all generations; and you shalt be called a repairer of breaches, and you shall cause your paths to be in peace. 13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, do not  do your pleasure on the holy days, and call the sabbaths delightful, holy to God; if  will not lift up your foot to your own ways, nor utter a word in unjust anger out of your mouth, 14 then you will trust in the Lord

Let's finish reading Isa 58:14:

Isa 58:14 and He shall bring you to the good places of the land, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.