Jordan B. Peterson quotes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as saying that “…the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” After viewing the entirety of Peterson’s Bible Series – posted by Mike below – I remembered that I had a copy of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, which includes Parts I and II, and decided it was high time to read at least that much.

Here is another passage (from Part I, p. 272) I found both relevant and thought-provoking:

“There is a simple truth which one can learn only through suffering: in war not victories are blessed but defeats. Governments need victories and the people need defeats. Victory gives rise to the desire for more victories. But after defeat it is freedom that men desire – and usually attain. A people need defeat just as an individual needs suffering and misfortune: they compel the deepening of the inner life and generate a spiritual upsurge.”