Ravi Zacharias said of his conversion in prison. I looked, the closest source would be:
"...Notes from the House of the Dead:
The convicts took their prayers very seriously, and each time they came to church each one of them would…buy a candle or contribute to the collection. “I’m somebody, too,” was what they thought or felt as they gave it up – “everyone’s equal before God…” We took communion at early mass. When, with the chalice in his hand, the priest cam to the words “…receive me, O Lord, even as the robber,” nearly all the convicts fell kneeling to the ground with a jangling of fetters, apparently interpreting these words as a literal expression of their own thoughts.[Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead, trans. David McDuff (London: Penguin Books, 1985) 275]
This moment illustrates the beginning of Dostoevsky’s conversion. Once he saw the peasants as brothers in Christ, he came to believe once again that criminals were spiritual beings, worthy of care and capable of redemption..." - Source
Notes from the House of the Dead:
The convicts took their prayers very seriously, and each time they came to church each one of them would…buy a candle or contribute to the collection. “I’m somebody, too,” was what they thought or felt as they gave it up – “everyone’s equal before God…” We took communion at early mass. When, with the chalice in his hand, the priest cam to the words “…receive me, O Lord, even as the robber,” nearly all the convicts fell kneeling to the ground with a jangling of fetters, apparently interpreting these words as a literal expression of their own thoughts.[Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead, trans. David McDuff (London: Penguin Books, 1985) 275]
This moment illustrates the beginning of Dostoevsky’s conversion. Once he saw the peasants as brothers in Christ, he came to believe once again that criminals were spiritual beings, worthy of care and capable of redemption
