Sunday, February 18, 2024

Making Good from Evil

The prayer of Solzhentisyn, reflecting on his many years in the gulag for political crimes:

Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn as a
young man in prison.


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