"The line separating good and evil passes . . . through every human heart."

 Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion, 2019, p. 213.

quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

My thoughts are not all bad: many are good and kind and true. But like a bag of flour infested by maggots, no part of me is pure. This dawned on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he was lying on rotting straw in a Soviet gulag: 

"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.”3 

This realization leaves us with another problem: all our relationships hinge, to some extent, on hiding.

3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, trans. Harry Willetts, vol. 3 (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 615.