Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Religion itself cannot but be dynamic which is why "return" is an incorrect term. A return to the forms of religion which… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
