01 October 2010

The Real Dividing Line

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on his experience as witness to and victim of the forced labor of the Soviet concentration camps during the Lenin/Stalin era:
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
--The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (3 vols.; New York: Harper & Row, 1974–1978), 1:168

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The cry of a God-ward heart:

"Teach me Your Way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name."

Psalm 86:11

Martha

Anonymous said...

"Ready For You" by Kutless comes to mind...beautiful song.

Martha