This Sunday, I’m preaching on Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. As I think about what I want to say, my mind keeps coming back to this quote from Alessandro Solzhenitsyn:
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains . . . an unuprooted small corner of evil.” [1]
[1] Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, trans. Thomas P. Whitney, vol. 2 (New York, NY: Harper Perinnial, 2007).